noun

• 1A fast contact sport played on an ice rink between two teams of six skaters, who attempt to drive a small rubber disk (the puck) into the opposing goal with hooked or angled sticks.

  Also called ice hockey

  ‘I play hockey two or three times a week in the winter’

  More example sentences

  • ‘hockey equipment’
  • ‘a hockey team’

  1. 1.1
     short for field hockey

noun