Definition of Ice hockey

1. Noun. A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks.


Definition of Ice hockey

1. Noun. A form of hockey played on an ice rink with a puck rather than ball. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Hockey

ice dancing
ice diving
ice dwarf
ice dwarfs
ice field
ice fields
ice fish
ice fishing
ice floe
ice floes
ice fog
ice foot
ice fractal
ice giant
ice giants
ice hockey (current term)
ice hockey player
ice hockey players
ice hockey rink
ice kachang
ice lollies
ice lolly
ice luge
ice luges
ice machine
ice maker
ice milk
ice needle
ice nucleation protein

Literary usage of Ice hockey

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

1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"How to play Ice-hockey. 1910. Am. Tebbutt (A.). A handbook of bandy, or hockey on sports pub. $ —.1« 1129 the ice. cr. 8». 68 p. 1898. 1 s. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"ice hockey (or Bandy, to give it its original name) is far more popular than ordinary Hockey in countries where there is much ice; in fact in America ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A game on skates, which should not be confounded with ice hockey, ... While ice polo is similar in object to ice hockey, it is very different in methods of ..."

4. A Bibliography of Physical Training by James Huff McCurdy, Jacob Titus Bowne (1905)
"P464 Canadian Game of ice hockey. Mind and Body, June, 1896, Vol. III., No. ... P464 ice hockey Growing in Favor. Editorial, Mind and Body, 8:46. ..."

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