game resembling hockey

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• Hockey — is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a puck, into the opponent s net or goal, using a hockey stick.Field hockey Field hockey is played on… …   Wikipedia

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• Ice hockey — sport imagesize=250px caption=Two defencemen and a goaltender guard their goal. The referee s raised arm indicates that he intends to call a penalty. union=International Ice Hockey Federation nickname=Hockey first=March 3, 1875, Victoria Skating… …   Wikipedia

• field hockey — noun a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents net • Syn: ↑hockey • Members of this Topic: ↑goalmouth, ↑net, ↑stick, ↑winger • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• street hockey — noun Date: 1964 a game resembling ice hockey played on a hard surface by players wearing shoes or roller skates and using hockey sticks and a small ball …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• polo — /ˈpoʊloʊ / (say pohloh) noun 1. a game resembling hockey, played on horseback with long handled mallets and a wooden ball. 2. some game more or less resembling this, as water polo. {Balti (Tibeto Burman language of Kashmir), related to Tibetan… …  

• Shinty — Shin ty, n. [Cf. Gael. sinteag a skip, a bound.] A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. Jamieson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• shindy — [19] Shindy is an alteration of shinty [18], the name of a rumbustious Scottish game resembling hockey which was also used in the 19th century for a ‘commotion’. Shinty itself appears to be a lexicalization of shin t’ ye ‘shin to you’, a cry… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• shinty — noun (plural shinties) a Scottish twelve a side game resembling hockey, played with curved sticks and taller goalposts and derived from hurling. Origin C18 (earlier as shinny): appar. from the cry shin ye, shin you, shin t ye, used in the game,… …   English new terms dictionary

• shinty — ► NOUN ▪ a Scottish game resembling hockey, played with curved sticks and taller goalposts and derived from hurling. ORIGIN apparently from the cry shin ye, shin you, shin t ye, used in the game, of unknown origin …   English terms dictionary

• shindy — [19] Shindy is an alteration of shinty [18], the name of a rumbustious Scottish game resembling hockey which was also used in the 19th century for a ‘commotion’. Shinty itself appears to be a lexicalization of shin t’ ye ‘shin to you’, a cry… …   Word origins