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

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