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ice hockey
noun
: a game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates whose object is to drive a puck into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick
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My youngest daughter's a big hockey ice hockey player.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Why did Arizona State president Michael Crow spend $134 million generated by the Facilities District funds on the construction of an ice hockey arena for men’s hockey?
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
The young Nagelsmann would have made the same walk many times during the years when the future manager of Germany’s national team also indulged his other boyhood passion: ice hockey.
—Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 4 July 2024
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Demi Lovato catches an ice hockey game.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1868, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice hockey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20hockey. Accessed 25 Jan. 2025.
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ice hockey
noun
: a game played on an ice rink in which two teams of skating players use curved sticks to try to shoot a puck into the opponent's goal
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