ice hockey

noun

1. 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

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice hockey¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

"I'm going out to Austria on Sunday to see what they've got in their training facilities. "They run ice hockey and football out of Salzburg as well.

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And prior to that, ice hockey fans will be travelling to the nearby SSE Arena to watch the Belfast Giants play Finnish side, KalPa Kuopio.

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It later announced a plan to address "systemic issues" in the culture of ice hockey.

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Among its holdings are the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team and German pro ice hockey team Eisbären Berlin.

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Tributes have been paid to a 19-year-old Scottish ice hockey player who died in a fall at a resort in Ibiza.

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