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ice hockey
noun
- a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.
ice hockey
noun
- a game played on ice by two opposing teams of six players each, who wear skates and try to propel a flat puck into their opponents' goal with long sticks having an offset flat blade at the end
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ice hockey1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
Costas returned on February 19, the day Finland beat Russia in men's ice hockey.
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On Monday night, Luxuria intended to attend an ice hockey match in Olympic Stadium.
From The Daily Beast
Oak Hall may be able to play football, but they don't know how to play ice hockey!
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The object of the game is to score a goal through your opponents' goal posts as in ice hockey.
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Instead of a ball the modern game of ice hockey is played with a rubber disk called a "puck."
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A rubber-covered ball is used and the stick is heavier than that used in Ice Hockey.
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The ordinary ice hockey stick will be satisfactory to play with.
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