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# shinny

«shinny» in Mova's school dictionary: **a simple game like hockey, played with sticks and a ball…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (shinny, shinnies); verb (shinny, shinnies, shinnied, shinnying)

### meaning for a pupil

Shinny is a simple game like hockey, played with sticks and a ball or puck on grass or ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shinny/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the game is played between teams on a lawn; the players are judged on skill, as in a sport match

### examples

- We had a match at shinny on the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shinny/#x1)
- The three brothers were the best shinny players in the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shinny/#x2)
- Let us play shinny in the park after school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shinny/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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