WordNet
n. an athlete who plays hockey [syn: ice-hockey player]
Usage examples of "hockey player".
Maurice Richard is the best hockey player in the world, the hero of all French Canada, a demigod to schoolboys throughout the province.
The name was right although the decoration of two obscenely cute mice eating a giant strawberry didnt exactly say six foot two, obsessively tidy, Newfie hockey player.
Dymtrus fought like an ice-hockey player: grab with one hand and pound with the other.
One afternoon in the late Cambrook was half hidden behind a fence casually watching the girls' hockey team practice behind school, the sky was like a gray washboard overhead, there was a cold breeze yet the girls were perspiring, galloping along the field like Valkyries in their maroon shorts and hooded school jerseys, calling and laughing to one another, Dexter was certain he wasn't spying on the girls though perhaps he'd singled out Pattianne Groves to follow with his admiring eyes, how impressive a hockey player she was, in her position as forward, her long wavy auburn hair pulled back into a swinging wildly as she ran, the straight-cut bangs across her perfect forehead blown by the wind, Dexter's heart lurched as he noted winglike patches of damp on Pattianne's back, soaking delicately through her jersey, he was gazing at the girl who'd seemed to have emerged angellike out of the horde of her teammates, an angel of wrath with her flashing hockey stick, her luminous eyes narrowed to slits .
He'd visited the place a dozen times between eighth grade and his senior year in high school, as a hockey player, and remembered with some fondness the brutally cold nights after the games when he and a half dozen friends went out looking for underage beer and hot women.
As I recall, Jim Cronin himself set us up with a round, as a tribute to 'the greatest Harvard hockey player since the Cleary brothers.
Alf had a bridge, a memento of his years as a high school ice hockey player in Minnesota, and he had removed his front teeth as part of his disguise.
The hockey player was twenty-two years old, born in Voskresensk, Russia.
In Las Vegas, through a friend, he'd quickly landed a job as a hockey player in a trashy casino.
Maybe you come out with some nice field-hockey player with a shaved head and Dingo boots, or maybe you ride off on a Harley with some other sweet thing you meet in there at the bar.
Through one source, he found out she had graduated cum laude from Northwestern, where she had been a standout field hockey player.
Yes - the time had come to make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here, to make like a library and book.