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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ice′ hock′ey,
- Sporta 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.
- 1880–85
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'ice hockey' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Blake
- Drobny
- Esposito
- Howe
- Orr
- Richard
- assist
- back-check
- ball hockey
- bantam
- blue line
- board
- board check
- body check
- breakaway
- broomball
- cage
- carry
- center
- check
- chippy
- clock
- cooler
- cornerman
- crease
- cross-check
- cushion
- dasher
- defenseman
- deke
- dribble
- end zone
- enforcer
- face
- face-off
- field hockey
- fore-check
- freeze
- goal crease
- goaler
- goalkeeper
- gondola
- grass hockey
- hat trick
- high-sticking
- hockey
- hockey stick
- holding
- hook check
- howe