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Definition of Hockey player
1. Noun. An athlete who plays hockey.
Generic synonyms: Athlete, Jock, Participant, Player
Specialized synonyms: Center, Goalie, Goalkeeper, Goaltender, Netkeeper, Netminder, Wing
Specialized synonyms: Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Gordon Howe, Howe, Bobby Orr, Orr, Robert Orr
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hockey Player
Literary usage of Hockey player
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"uated at the Pittsburg Academy in 1906, and has come to be a noted athlete and
hockey player. 3. Marie E. 4. Clara M. JOHN EDWARD YOUNG, chief millwright in ..."
2. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1901)
"The skill of a good hockey-player is a delightful thing to see; ... And hockey
has this advantage over football, that the hockey-player can devote his feet ..."
3. Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1909)
"To take an instance, which the reader may very likely think trivial and absurd,
I have witnessed in my brief career as a hockey player, two unions most ..."
4. An Inverted Sort of Prayer by Chris F. Needham (2006)
"By now I was beginning to collect die usual amount of attention from the various
occupants of the bar, that kind of attention a bona fide hockey player ..."
5. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"Whereas in football a player may defend his goal or play for his side on any part
of the field, the Field hockey player must be very careful to keep within ..."
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