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Definition: Field Hockey |
Field HockeyNoun1. Hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Sports & Leisure | An outdoor game played on a closely cut grass or hard dirt surface with a ball by two opposing teams of 11 players on each side, using hooked or bent sticks. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A game of field hockey in progress.
Modern field hockey was born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England on January 18, 1886. The current governing body of the global game is the Fédération Internationale de Hockey (International Hockey Federation or FIH).
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The game is played between two teams of eleven players on a 91.4 x 54.8 metre (100 x 60 yard) rectangular field. Most modern fields are covered with "synthetic grass" - a smooth, carpet-like material, but the game was traditionally played on grass. At each end there is a goal approximately 2.1 metres high, and 3.7 metres wide, and a semi-circle approximately 16 metres from the goal known as the "shooting circle", as well as lines across the field approximately 24 metres from each end-line and in the centre of the field.
Each player carries a "stick", about 90 centimetres long and traditionally made of wood but now often made with fibreglass, kevlar and carbon fibre composites, with a rounded handle of approximately 2.5 centimetres diameter at the top flattening out on one side and with a hook at the bottom, with which they can push, dribble, or hit a hard plastic, usually dimpled, ball about 7 centimetres in diameter.
Players are only permitted to play the ball with the flat side of the stick, which is always on the "natural" side for a right-handed person - there are no "left-handed" hockey sticks. Players are not permitted to let the ball strike any part of their body or propel the ball with any part of the stick other than the flat part.
One player from each team is designated the "goalkeeper", and is permitted to play the ball with any part of their body whilst within their defensive circle. Goalkeepers usually wear extensive protective equipment including helmets, chest guards, body armour, heavily padded gloves, and leg and foot guards designed not only to protect the goalkeeper but allow them to propel the ball away without the use of the stick.
The goal of the teams is to play the ball into their "shooting circle" and from there, hit or push the ball into the goal. The team with the most goals after two 35-minute halves wins the game.
At the highest level, hockey is a fast-moving, highly skilled sport, with players using fast manoeuvering with the stick, quick accurate passing, and hits that travel at up to 160 km/h in attempts to keep possession and move the ball towards the goal. Whilst tackling and otherwise obstructing players is not permitted, collisions are common, and the speed at which the ball travels along the ground (and sometimes through the air, which is legal if it is not judged dangerous by the umpire) requires the use of padded shin guards to prevent injury. Some of the tactics used superficially resemble soccer, but with greater speed - the best players manouver and score goals almost quicker than the eye can see.Origins
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Synonym: Field HockeySynonym: hockey (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Field Hockey |
| English words defined with "field hockey": Doddart ♦ field hockey ball ♦ hockey ♦ Polo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "field hockey": Doddart. (references) |
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Screenplays | You want your sister to lose weight, tell her to get off the couch, stop eating twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey, and you know what no-one knows what they wanna be when they grow up! (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Holton Arms School. Field hockey game at Holton Arms School I.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expression using "field hockey": field hockey ball. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "field hockey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hockey sur gazon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hockey (hockey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χόκεϊ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papago | toka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ieldfay ockeyhay hochei pe iarbã. (various references) хоккей на траве. (various references) hockey (hockey, ice hockey). (various references) กีฬาฮอกกี้ (hockey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-h-i-k-l-o-y" | |
-3 letters: cheekily. | |
-4 letters: cheloid, chiefly, filched, flecked, flicked, flocked, heckled, hoelike, hoicked, keyhole. | |
-5 letters: ceiled, cheeky, chield, childe, choked, chokey, cloyed, codify, coifed, coiled, decile, deckel, deckle, defile, dickey, dioecy, docile, echoed, echoey, eyelid, feckly, fickle, fickly, fleche, flecky, fleech, fleecy, fleyed, flocky, foiled, folkie, heckle, heiled, hickey, hocked, hockey, hokily, holked, keloid, leched. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 65 6C 64 48 6F 63 6B 65 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01100101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i e l d   H o c k e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0065 006C 0064 0048 006F 0063 006B 0065 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40757178702428169777191 |
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