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Definition of Ice hockey
1. 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.
Examples of category: Hat Trick, Face-off, Assist, Icing, Icing The Puck, Power Play, Penalty Box, Stick, Game Misconduct, Center, Period
Terms within: Face-off, Check, Slapshot
Generic synonyms: Contact Sport, Athletic Game
Definition of Ice hockey
1. Noun. A form of hockey played on an ice rink with a puck rather than ball. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Hockey
Literary usage of Ice hockey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"How to play Ice-hockey. 1910. Am. Tebbutt (A.). A handbook of bandy, or hockey
on sports pub. $ —.1« 1129 the ice. cr. 8». 68 p. 1898. 1 s. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"ice hockey (or Bandy, to give it its original name) is far more popular than
ordinary Hockey in countries where there is much ice; in fact in America ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A game on skates, which should not be confounded with ice hockey, ... While ice
polo is similar in object to ice hockey, it is very different in methods of ..."
4. A Bibliography of Physical Training by James Huff McCurdy, Jacob Titus Bowne (1905)
"P464 Canadian Game of ice hockey. Mind and Body, June, 1896, Vol. III., No. ...
P464 ice hockey Growing in Favor. Editorial, Mind and Body, 8:46. ..."
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