hockey
Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into…Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
» Ice hockey is an exciting sport.
Хокей — захоплюючий вид спорту.
Meaning
4 senses(uncountable)Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
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 hockey sticks
(Commonwealth, uncountable)Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.
Hockey, Eishockey
хокке́йxokkéj
гоке́йhokéj, хоке́йxokéj
a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net
(Canada, US, uncountable)Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.
(US, slang, uncountable)Feces, excrement.
Examples
138 sentencesIce hockey is an exciting sport.
Хокей — захоплюючий вид спорту.
Tom is a professional hockey player.
Том - професійний хокеїст.
ruТом — профессиональный хоккеист.
deTom ist ein Profi-Hockeyspieler.
Tom is a good hockey player.
Том — добрий хокеїст.
ruТом - хороший хоккеист.
Do you still play hockey?
Ти все ще граєш в хокей?
ruТы всё ещё играешь в хоккей?
deSpielst du noch Hockey?
I used to play hockey.
Я колись грав у хокей.
ruЯ когда-то играл в хоккей.
Translations
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Origin
16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stic16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, akin to hock (“hook”) + -ey, or from Middle French hoquet (“shepherd's staff, crook”), which resembles a hockey stick, via a diminutive form of Old French hoc from Middle Dutch hoec (“hook”), a cognate of Old English hōc.
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Synonyms
5 synonyms- 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 hockey sticks:ice hockeyhockey game
- a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net:field hockey
Word family
44 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
8 patterns- a hockey fan
- hockey fan
- good hockey player
- hockey player
- is a hockey
- play hockey
- a good hockey
- good hockey