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# hockey

«hockey» in Mova's school dictionary: **a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hockey)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hockey is a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck, where players try to hit it into the other team's goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#m1)

2) Field hockey is played on grass with a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#m2)

3) Ice hockey is played on ice with skates and a flat rubber disc called a puck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE lessons in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand «hockey» usually means field hockey. In Canada and the USA «hockey» means ice hockey, a hugely popular sport in Canada. Safety: wear shin pads, gum shields and helmets; keep sticks low. Phrases: play hockey, hockey stick, ice hockey, field hockey, hockey pitch, hockey rink.

### examples

- We play hockey on Wednesdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x1)
- She scored a goal in the hockey match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x2)
- Ice hockey is Canada's favourite winter sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x3)
- Keep your hockey stick below your waist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x4)
- The puck slid across the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x5)
- He wears a helmet to play hockey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x6)
- Our hockey team won the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/#x7)

### note

Uncountable noun: «play hockey» (no «the» or «a»). The meaning depends on the country: in Canada and the USA hockey = ice hockey; in Britain, Ireland, Australia and NZ hockey = field hockey. Ice hockey has six players per side on the ice; field hockey has eleven.

### In the corpora

- [A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/13/)
- [A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hockey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hockey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.