ice hockey

noun

a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.

ice hockey

noun

a game played on ice by two opposing teams of six players each, who wear skates and try to propel a flat puck into their opponents' goal with long sticks having an offset flat blade at the end

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ice hockey¹

First recorded in 1880–85

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No criminal charges will be brought against a professional ice hockey player arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of Adam Johnson.

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Many waved Canadian flags taped to ice hockey sticks.

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She tried several wheelchair sports after sustaining those injuries in 2017, ultimately discovering para ice hockey, which takes her all over the world competing.

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It presents the conversation as chatty: they apparently discussed ice hockey, the kind of detail an audience back in Russia will lap up.

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The son of a high-school principal, he went to Harvard University on scholarship where he played the most Canadian of sports, ice hockey.

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ice giant icehouse

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