field hockey
noun
a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
Origin of field hockey
First recorded in 1900–05
Words nearby field hockey
Example sentences from the Web for field hockey
Shinny as played on Union Hill in the nineties had none of the refinements of its dignified cousin, field-hockey.
Rough-Hewn |Dorothy Canfield
British Dictionary definitions for field hockey
field hockey
noun
US and Canadian
hockey played on a field, as distinguished from ice hockey