grass hockey

American

noun

Canadian.

field hockey.

grass hockey British

noun

field hockey, as contrasted with ice hockey

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Etymology

Origin of grass hockey

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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He transformed a landfill into a small grass hockey field and uses his free time to teach the sport to children aged 8 to 15 in Kolkata.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Bluff folks that plays grass hockey, all over what was Bijah Woods's farm, men and girls both, has their sleeves pushed up as if they were going at a day's wash, and their collars open and hanging to the hind button, which to my mind looks shiftlesser than doin' without.

From Project Gutenberg

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