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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hockey
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
field hockey
ice hockey
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ The association continues next year - P.S. Does anyone know a good hockey coach - we definitely need one!
▪ Guys like that can make you a better hockey club.
▪ After the break Darlington produced their best hockey.
▪ He body-checked her like a good hockey player.
▪ They've got some good cyclists, some good ice hockey players, but not many good unicycle hockey players.
▪ The signs look good for ice hockey in the Nineties.
professional
▪ George Gillett signed the papers Wednesday to become majority owner of the most storied team in professional hockey.
▪ She had a beau named Reg who had asked her to go to the most exciting professional hockey game of the season.
■ NOUN
club
▪ Wallingford Wallingford entered the world of hockey this year, with a £500 sponsorship of the town's hockey club.
▪ We did it because we believed we improved our hockey club.
▪ Guys like that can make you a better hockey club.
fan
▪ One might think a hockey fan would not sit easily at a sewing machine piecing together patches for a quilt.
field
▪ Even field hockey and table tennis are more than 75 percent full.
▪ Certainly, field hockey will have a nice home in Atlanta.
▪ Most of the 3. 7 million seats remaining are for soccer, baseball and field hockey.
▪ Then there are the Socceroos and Matildas in soccer, the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos in field hockey.
game
▪ And he loved apple juice and chewing gum and watching ice hockey games.
▪ He was, Kasper said, merely trying to win a hockey game.
▪ No more deaths from head injuries in pro hockey games....
▪ She had a beau named Reg who had asked her to go to the most exciting professional hockey game of the season.
ice
▪ Which sports would you watch, apart from golf? Ice hockey and basketball.
▪ And he loved apple juice and chewing gum and watching ice hockey games.
▪ Swindon will go wild if their ice hockey team win promotion to the Premier League.
▪ The consortium is being headed by the manager of the ice hockey team.
▪ Its ice hockey team is one of the best in the country.
▪ Neither thought they would ever make a living from ice hockey.
▪ They've got some good cyclists, some good ice hockey players, but not many good unicycle hockey players.
player
▪ There was an indignant shout from the hockey players.
▪ Why do the hockey players skate around for so long between fights?
▪ But Britain's most famous hockey player insists it's wrong to write them off.
▪ Every hockey player in the world has back problems.
▪ They've got some good cyclists, some good ice hockey players, but not many good unicycle hockey players.
▪ The Hansons were played by three young minor-league hockey players.
▪ They've got some good cyclists, some good ice hockey players, but not many good unicycle hockey players.
▪ Aggressive hockey players had more testosterone than their more easygoing teammates.
stick
▪ Piggie involved hitting a wooden wedge with a type of hockey stick.
▪ One looked at her and then fell back heavily, flinging her hockey stick to the side.
▪ Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats, tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure.
▪ Dan exclaimed; he had been hit in the jaw with a hockey stick, and his lip had swelled.
team
▪ Some institutes did not ignore ladies sports - a number of hockey teams were formed and matches played.
▪ Now they are just a hockey team, and not a very good one at that.
▪ The consortium is being headed by the manager of the ice hockey team.
▪ Its ice hockey team is one of the best in the country.
▪ He was captain of the hockey team.
▪ And I'd like to see the ice hockey team win the play offs as well.
▪ Nashville also became a candidate to become the next home of the Florida Panthers hockey team.
■ VERB
play
▪ There you will learn to play hockey or rugby.
▪ In both matinees, they played polite, uninspired hockey, allowing the opposition too many easy strikes at Ranford.
▪ He played baseball and hockey, attempted to play the flute - without success!
▪ I played hockey yesterday and made two goals, the only ones made.
▪ If I am not picked to play football I will probably play hockey.
▪ I roller blade and I am being taught to play hockey on roller blade.
▪ For his refreshment he played hockey vigorously in the local team or cycled in the fen country.
▪ Q: How old were you when you first played hockey?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A: They are happy that I play hockey, but they are unhappy that I get hurt sometimes.
▪ And then the three of them join Peter in a makeshift game of baseball, hockey, or soccer.
▪ At hockey there was a vacancy for the goalkeeper and that had been my position in the school team.
▪ Bully off: A new girls' hockey tournament bullies off next month at Stockton sports centre.
▪ On Wednesdays I train for hockey in the local indoor leisure centre.
▪ Soccer and hockey leagues also are planned.
▪ The Hansons were played by three young minor-league hockey players.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hockey

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.

  2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hockey

after an isolated reference from Ireland dated 1527 ("The horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves ..."), the word is next recorded 1838 from W. Sussex; of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle French hoquet "shepherd's staff, crook," diminutive of Old French hoc "hook." The hooked clubs with which the game is played resemble shepherds' staves. In North America, ice hockey is distinguished from field hockey.

Wiktionary
hockey

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context North America English) ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks. 2 (context British English) field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick. 3 A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, or shinny. Etymology 2

n. (context darts English) (alt form oche English)

WordNet
hockey
  1. n. hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net [syn: field hockey]

  2. a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticks [syn: ice hockey, hockey game]

Wikipedia
Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. In many areas, one sport (typically field hockey or ice hockey) is generally referred to simply as hockey.

Hockey (disambiguation)

Hockey is a family of team games.

Hockey may also refer to:

  • Hockey (album), 1980 John Zorn album
  • Hockey (band), American new wave band
  • Joe Hockey, Australian politician
Hockey (album)

Hockey is an album by John Zorn featuring his early " game piece" composition of the same name which first appeared on the Parachute Records edition of Pool in 1980. The full recordings of the piece were first released on CD on Tzadik Records as part of the The Parachute Years Box Set in 1997 and as a single CD in 2002.

Hockey (band)

Hockey is an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.

Usage examples of "hockey".

Hell, he still choked up when he thought back to the first professional hockey game he ever saw.

But he was a solid hockey player, a grinder, an old-school third line winger.

I might not want to go near a professional hockey player with a ten-foot pole?

I had to make a decision: keep playing hockey or have a personal life.

Travis, if you want to play hockey, you do know that you have to practice every day?

Are you, or are you not, the Jason Goddard I sneaked off to Mite Hockey when you were too young to blow your own nose?

Most hockey players who turn to coaching are considered to be washed-up, you know.

Before he could give them hockey lessons, they needed skating lessons.

Kira fashion, she stroked the hockey stick she was holding suggestively, just enough to make him a little bit uncomfortable, then she raised it in challenge, as if it were a sword.

Kira and Zane were, literally, sword fighting with their hockey sticks.

Every bone and muscle in his body hurt, except, oddly enough, his bad knee, which felt better than after their first hockey practice.

Wednesday at hockey practice he let Kira dole out hot chocolate without asking her to put on skates, which left her free to sing Zane to sleep, which left Travis free to skate like a pro.

Davis, the bully Jason made captain of the hockey team, played Scrooge, an investment banker.

Wednesday and Friday afternoon hockey practices had dwindled to fourteen regulars, boys who were willing to work hard at learning to play the game, Travis among them.

Zane on her lap, quilt and all, and tucked his head beneath her chin like at hockey practice.