ice hockey
noun
a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.
Origin of ice hockey
First recorded in 1880–85
Words nearby ice hockey
ice floe,
ice flowers,
ice fog,
ice foot,
ice front,
ice hockey,
ice house,
ice island,
ice jam,
ice lolly,
ice machine
Example sentences from the Web for ice hockey
And that very night he started in to organize an ice-hockey team.
Dave Porter and His Rivals |Edward StratemeyerIt was a winter of hard work and, aside from some skating and ice-hockey, Eric took little time off from his books.
The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers |Francis Rolt-Wheeler
British Dictionary definitions for ice hockey
ice hockey
noun
a game played on ice by two opposing teams of six players each, who wear skates and try to propel a flat puck into their opponents' goal with long sticks having an offset flat blade at the end