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Definition of Field hockey

1. Noun. A game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net.

Definition of Field hockey

1. Noun. A form of hockey played on a grassed pitch with a hard rubber ball instead of a puck. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Hockey

Literary usage of Field hockey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"field hockey is a kind of cross between football and Ice Hockey, or Canadian Hockey. As in football, there are eleven players on each side. ..."

2. Athletic Games in the Education of Women by Gertrude Dudley, Frances Kellor (1909)
"CHAPTER XI field hockey VALUE OF THE GAME field hockey was first introduced into this country by Miss Constance Appleby in 1901. ..."

3. One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games by Ethel Perrin, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (1902)
"All other " Athletic Games and Sports," including Basket Ball for Women, Tether Ball, Squash Ball, and field hockey (rules by Constance Applebee), ..."

4. A Bibliography of Physical Training by James Huff McCurdy, Jacob Titus Bowne (1905)
"P363.2 »field hockey. Spalding's Athletic Library, July, 1900, Vol. X., No. 116, 21 pages. ... P363.2 A School Game for Girls (English field hockey). ..."

5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"The sticks are a little larger than those used in field hockey, ... The rules of the game vary only slightly from those governing field hockey. ..."

6. Ten Minutes' Exercise for Busy Men: A Complete Course in Physical Education ...by Luther Halsey Gulick by Luther Halsey Gulick (1902)
"A complete description of field hockey, illustrated with pictures showing points of play ; information for players, and the official rules, will lie found ..."

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