hockey
IPA: hˈɑki
noun
- (Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
- (Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
- A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.
- (US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
- A surname.
- (darts, dated) Alternative form of oche. [(darts) A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.]
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Examples of "hockey" in Sentences
- He is a pro hockey player.
- The name of the game was ice hockey.
- It will raise the ire of the hockey editors.
- The parrot is the mascot of the hockey team.
- He will be dearly missed in the hockey world.
- Junior hockey is the feeder system to the NHL.
- Renaud was the hockey sportsperson of the year.
- Clipping is a penalty in the sport of ice hockey.
- A version of the logo features it in the likeness of a hockey puck.
- Baseball merchandise outsold hockey merchandise last Christmas for the first time.
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