'Hockey' definitions:
Definition of 'hockey'
(from WordNet)
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: field hockey, hockey]
noun
A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks [syn: ice hockey, hockey, hockey game]
Definition of 'Hockey'
From: GCIDE
- Hockey \Hock"ey\, n. [From Hook, n.]
- 1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.] [1913 Webster]