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ice hockey

ice hockey

10 2.3
A team sport on ice where players use sticks to hit a puck into the other team's goal
  • noun
  • /aɪs ˈhɑːki/
translation icon : hockey sobre hielo
  • The championship match showcased the best of ice hockey, with thrilling plays and teamwork.
  • ice hockey players
  • ice hockey team
  • professional ice hockey

I explained it like a you ever play ice hockey?

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Examples

  • The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California.

    Blog text (7)
  • She has been practicing ice hockey for years and dreams of joining a professional team.

  • Only about three or four girls around my age played ice hockey in my hometown.

    Blog text (14)
  • I used to play ice hockey at the rink across the street.

  • He was a professional ice hockey player.

  • Six youth team sport coaches, three in ice hockey and three in soccer, were selected as model coaches.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with six former university male ice hockey team captains.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Billy coached the Scarborough High School ice hockey team and had to leave work on Friday afternoons for practice.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Twenty-eight male university ice hockey players participated in the second study (M age = 22.4).

    Academic text (1992)
  • I love playing ice hockey on weekends with my friends at the local rink.

Synonyms

hockey
vsice hockey
  • UK
153 1.0

A fast game on ice where players use sticks to hit a puck into the goal

is the same sport but without stressing speed
hockey game
vsice hockey
  • UK
32 1.0

Two teams play on ice using sticks to move a small puck into the other team's goal

is the broader team sport definition without specifying player numbers

How Fast

ice hockey
10 2.3
ice skating
22 1.0

Surface Forms

ice hockey singular
ice hockeys plural

Morphology

ice + hockey

The meaning 'a team sport played on ice' is directly derivable from combining 'ice' (frozen surface) with 'hockey' (a stick-and-puck team sport); the modifier 'ice' simply specifies the playing surface. This is a regular, compositional noun compound found across languages (e.g., Spanish 'hockey sobre hielo'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Ice hockey comes from joining ice, the frozen surface where it is played, with hockey, an old word for a crooked stick used to hit a ball. So ice hockey means 'a team sport played on ice' where players use sticks to move a puck into the goal.