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Definition: Hockey |
HockeyNoun1. Hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net. 2. A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hockey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Note: Hockey \Hock"ey\, noun. [From Hook, noun.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hockey A game in which each player has a hooked stick or bandy with which to strike the ball. Hockey is simply the diminutive of hook. Called Shinty in Scotland. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | HOCKEY. Drunk with strong stale beer, called old hock. See HICKEY. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Field Hockey is a popular Olympic sport in many countries around the world, with India, Pakistan, Germany, The Netherlands and Australia the most successful international teams. It is popular for both men and women in these countries. In these countries, where (with the exception of Germany) ice hockey is not common, it is generally referred to simply as "hockey". In the United States (which is not a major force in world field hockey) it is widely regarded as a women's sport, but there are men's leagues as well.
A game of field hockey in progress.
Origins
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).
The Field of Play
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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.
Equipment
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.
Rules
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.
Tactics
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.
Tournaments
The most prestigious tournament in hockey is undoubtedly the Olympic Games. In the men's game, The Netherlands are the current Olympic champions, with South Korea and Australia taking the minor medals. Historically, the Indian and Pakistani teams dominated the men's game for many years, but have lessened in prominence recently. Before the introduction of the women's hockey at the Olympics, the best international team in the world was the Netherlands. From the early 1990s, Australia has been by far the best in the women's game internationally, though the retirement of a number of key players has weakened the team recently.
The other major international tournaments are the quadrennial Hockey World Cups, run seperately for men and women, and the annual men's and women's Champions Trophies.
Many countries have extensive club competitions for both junior and senior players. Despite the large numbers of participants, club hockey is not a particularly large spectator sport and few players can afford to play professionally.
External link
- The FIH
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Field hockey."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hockey is a sport in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball into the opponents' goal. The ball may only be handled using a stick.
In many countries (including Canada, the USA and the Scandinavian countries), however, the term hockey is applied to a variant of the former game played on ice, using a small rubber disc, called a puck. The article on the former sport may be found at field hockey, while the latter one is found at ice hockey.
Street hockey is a term used to describe a usually informal variant of the game when players on wheeled skates play on an asphalt or cement surface. When they play at an offstreet venue, the term roller hockey is usually used.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hockey."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ice hockey, known simply as "hockey" in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice.
Game
The objective of the game is to score by playing a hard rubber disc, the puck, into one of the nets placed at opposite ends of the rink (the playfield). The players may control the puck using a long stick with a curved blade at one end. Players may also redirect the puck with a skate (but not kick at it) or with the hand (without closing the hand). A player scoring three goals in a single game is said to have scored a hat trick.
A team consists of at most 22 players of whom two have to be goaltenders. At most six players from each team may be on the ice at the same time. Usually one of the six is a goaltender (or goalie), who wears special protective clothing and is positioned in front of the net. The goaltender is allowed to immobilize the puck with his hands or body.
The other five players are divided into three forwards and two defensemen. The forward positions are named left wing, center and right wing. Typically the three forwards play together as a line. The defensemen usually stay together as a pair but may change less frequently than the forwards. Ice hockey is a fast paced game and player changes may happen every few minutes and often without an interruption in play.
The remaining characteristics of hockey often depend on the particular code of play being used. The two most important codes are those of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and of the North American National Hockey League (NHL). North American hockey codes tend to bear much mre resemblance to the NHL code.
The area of play is called a rink, which is 61 m (200 ft) in length and 26 to 30 m wide (85 to 100 ft) wide, with the corners rounded with a radius of 8 m (28 ft).
The rink is enclosed by boards that are between 1 m and 1.2 m high. North American rinks are narrower than rinks elsewhere, typically about 85 feet wide compared to about 100 feet on other continents. Shatterproof glass extends above the boards, except in front of the players' benches. In the National Hockey League nets are suspended at each end of the rink to keep pucks from entering the crowd.
The surface of the ice is broken up into different sections by lines painted beneath the ice surface. The red goal lines are located at various distances from the end of the rink, depending on the code of play, and extend across the rink. In international hockey they are 3.5 m (10 ft) from each end of the rink. The opening of the goals is located at the centre of the goal line, which means that there is an area behind the goal, which is rare for a team sport (box lacrosse, for one, also has an area behind the goal). In international play the goal 1.83 m wide and 1.22 m high, which is virtually identical to the North American specification of a goal 6 feet wide and 4 feet high. The goalposts are joined by a crossbar.
Attachments to the tops of the goal posts extend backwards towards the bpoards and permit the hanging of a net to catch pucks which cross the goal line between the goalposts.
The area just in front of the goal, which is restricted to the goalkeeper, is marked by another red line, and is called the goal crease. The dimensions of the crease in the National Hockey League and in international hockey differ. In international play the crease is a semi-circle with a radius of 180 cm. In the NHL the crease is 8 feet wide with sides 4 feet long, and the front edge is a section of a semicircle 6 feet in diameter. The surface of the concrete under the crease is painted light blue.
Two blue lines are drawn across the rink, dividing the rink into three parts. In the National Hockey League the blue lines are 60 feet from each goal line, while in international play they divide the rink into three equal parts.
The central part is known variously as centre ice or the neutral zone, while the other two zones are known either as the end zones or as the attacking and defending zones. The end zones are equal in size. One function of the blue line is to determine if the team with the puck is offside. A red and white checkered line (the red line) extends across the width of the rink and up the boards at centre ice, dividing the rink in half. This line is also used to determine if play is offside, as well as if the puck has been iced.
A player is offside if:
Icing consists of driving the puck from one's own side of the red line across the farther goal line without scoring and without the defending team having a chance to intercept it (in North America a defending player must also touch the puck behind the goal line before an attacking player does). Once icing occurs play is stopped and a face-off (see below) is held in the end zone of the team that iced the puck.
- his (or her) team has the puck and he is already in the opponents' end zone when his team brings the puck into that end zone (across the blue line),
- in international play, if he is in the opponents' end zone and receives a pass which has crossed both blue lines,
- in most North American play, if he is on his opponents' side of the red line and receives a forward pass which has travelled across both his team's blue line and the red line.
Play begins with a face-off at centre ice. The puck is dropped between the centres of the opposing teams, who then attempt to play it. When play is stopped it is resumed with a face-off unless a penalty shot has been called. Face-offs are conducted in five face-off circles – one at centre ice and the other four on opposite sides of each end zone – at four dots, one at each end of each blue line in the neutral zone, or at other points as required by the rules.
The face-off circles have a radius of 15 feet in North America and 4.5 m in international play. There is a dot at the centre of each circle on which the puck is dropped. Only the centres may enter the face-off circles before the puck is dropped. Face-off tactics and strategy are extremely important parts of the game.
Penalties
In men's hockey, but not in women's, a player may use his hip or shoulder to hit another player if the player has the puck or has just passed it. This use of the hip and shoulder is called body-checking. Expressly forbidden are:
Other serious infractions include delay of game (shooting the puck out of bounds, for example, or deliberately dislodging the goalposts) and holding the puck if one is not the goaltender. The penalty for these infractions is the removal of the offending player from the ice for a set period during which his team may not replace him. That is, they must play shorthanded unrtil he returns. A minor penalty is removal for two minutes or until a goal is scored by the unpenalized team.
- boarding (throwing an opponent violently into the boards)
- butt-ending (jabbing an opponent with the shaft of one's stick)
- charging (taking more than two steps toward an opponent before body-checking him)
- clipping (throwing one's body across or below an opponent's knees)
- cross-checking (hitting an opponent with the shaft of the stick while both one's hands are on the shaft and while extending one's arms)
- elbowing (impeding or striking an opponent with one's elbow)
- failing to keep the puck in motion (delay of game)
- fighting
- high-sticking (hitting an opponent with a stick helld above the shoulders)
- holding (impeding an opponent with hands or arms)
- holding an opponent's stick
- hooking (impeding an opponent with one's stick)
- interference (body-checking an opponent who does not have the puck or who has not just passed it)
- kneeing (hitting an opponent with one's knee)
- roughing (a less serious form of fighting)
- slashing (swinging one's stick at an opponent, except at his shins or pants, whether or not contact is made)
- spearing (jabbing or attempting to jab an opponent with the blade of one's stick)
- throwing one's stick at the puck or in the defending zone
- tripping (impeding an opponent by using one's body or stick around his legs to make him lose his balance)
In the NHL, a double minor penalty is assessed for head-butting.
A major penalty of five minutes is assigned for more serious infractions, including checking from behind and causing injury while committing a penalty which would otherwise be punished with a minor penalty; the player must serve the full five minutes regardless of the number of goals scored against his or her team. A misconduct penalty is given chiefly for disrespect to the officials; it lasts ten minutes, but the player's team does not have to play shorthanded. Game misconduct and match penalties (for attempting to injure an opponent, kicking, etc.) result in the expulsion of the player from the game.
A penalty shot is awarded in the National Hockey League for offences such as fouling a player with the puck who is advancing towards the goaltender with no defenders in his way. All players but the goaltender and the fouled player leave the ice, the puck is placed at centre ice, and the fouled player is allowed to advance with the puck and take one shot (rebounds do not count). If his shot is successful he is awarded a goal.
When an infraction is committed, play stops if the offending team is in possession of the puck. If it is not in possession of the puck, play continues until the offending team is in possession of the puck or play stops for other reasons. If a goal is scored against the offending team, any minor penalty is waived. The goaltender of the non-offending team usually leaves the ice to be replaced by a forward when a penalty call is delayed.
A team playing with more players than a penalized team is said to be on the power play. Icing is not called against the shorthanded team on a power play. Special tactics are used when playing with an advantage in numbers.
Tactics
An important defensive tactic is checking, or attempting to take the puck from an opponent. Forechecking is checking in the other team's zone, backchecking is checking while the other team is advancing down the ice toward one's own goal. Stickchecking, sweepchecking, and pokechecking are legal uses of the stick to obtain possession of the puck.
Headmanning the puck is the tactic of always passing to the player farthest down the ice. A deke (short for decoy) is a feint. When a player directs the puck towards the opponents' goal he or she is said to shoot the puck. A wrist shot is a shot made by twisting the wrist on the shaft of the stick; a wrist shot which raises the puck higher than the player's head is a flip shot. A slapshot is a shot made by raising the stick and then bringing it down sharply behind the puck and following through, lifting the stick from the ice after striking the puck.
Periods and overtime
A game consists of three periods of twenty minutes each, the clock running only when the puck is in play. In international play the teams change ends for the second period, again for the third period, and again after ten minutes of the third period, In North American play the last change is omitted,
Various procedures are used if a game is tied. In tournament play North Americans favour sudden death overtime, in which the teams continue to play until a goal is scored. International play uses an overtime period followed by a shoot-out if the score remains tied after the extra period; the shootout consists of five players from each team taking penalty shots against the other team's goaltender until one team has the preponderance of successful shots.
History
The game originated in Canada around 1855, when the game on ice was first played with a puck rather than a ball, distinguishing it from field hockey, as played by British soldiers in Canada. A sport similar to ice hockey, bandy, also uses a ball.
The game quickly gained popularity in Canada, and in the North Central and North Eastern United States. In 1893, the Stanley Cup was established as the trophy emblematic of the Canadian senior championship; it became the award of the winner of the playoffs of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1926. In 1908, after the competition for the Stanley Cup had become professional, the Allan Cup became the trophy awarded to the national amateur champion. In 1919 the Memorial Cup was established as the trophy for the national junior (under 21) men's champion.
The sport also became known in Europe, and in 1908, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) was founded.
At the 1920 Summer Olympics, ice hockey was introduced to the Olympics, and it has been part of the Winter Olympics ever since. Canada dominated Olympic play in the early years, being undefeated until 1936. After the Second World War, teams from Eastern Europe became stronger, notably the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, although this was also due to the fact that only amateur players were allowed to play in the Olympics. Communist countries frequently entered teams consisting largely of servicemen whose military duties consisted of playing hockey. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Red Army team was for many years one of the premier teams in the world.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics, an agreement was made to stop the NHL for a few weeks to allow the professional players to compete in the Olympics. Despite hopes from Canada and the US, the Czech Republic won the Olympic title on that occasion, although Canada would come out on top 4 years later in Salt Lake City. In 1998, women's ice hockey also made its appearance at the Olympics, with the United States beating Canada for the gold medal in that year, and Canada beating the United States in 2002.
Before the Olympics were opened up for professional athletes, the World Cup of Hockey and its predecessor the Canada Cup displayed the highest level of hockey, since only these tournaments were open to all the world's best players. Featuring the very best players from the six competing countries (Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the USSR, Sweden and the USA) the Canada Cup was played for in 1976, 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1991. The 1987 event is referred to as one of the most spectacular in hockey history. In 1996, the Canada Cup was replaced by the World Cup of Hockey, which featured all six nations above and Germany (though Czechoslovakia had by then split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia). The World Cup of Hockey will be played for again in 2004. Except for 1981, when the USSR won, all Canada Cups were won by Canada. The 1996 World Cup of Hockey event was won by the USA.
The annual International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships are formally open to the best players in the world, but many cannot attend because they are playing in the Stanley Cup tournament, which is held at the same time. The IIHF championships pit national men's and women's teams against each other in multiple divisions.
At present the game is most popular in Canada, the United States, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Switzerland. The premier league is the National Hockey League (NHL), with teams in the United States and Canada. Other leagues providing a high calibre of play are the Finnish SM-Liiga, the Swedish Elitserien, and the Czech and Russian national competitions.
Hockey is also played by colleges in the United States as a part of the NCAA culminated in the Frozen Four. The American Hockey League (AHL) is the leading American minor league; it has teams in both Canada and the United States. The Canadian Hockey League or CHL is a major Canadian junior (under 21) league, and is the parent group of the Ontario Hockey League, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. It is the chief preparation league for the NHL, and also awards the Memorial Cup to the Canadian junior hockey champion.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ice hockey."
Synonyms: HockeySynonyms: field hockey (n), hockey game (n), ice hockey (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
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Screenplays | I'm much better at video hockey. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg) 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) If someone had asked me yesterday, I'd have told them that the Quebec Conference is made up of six professional hockey teams (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) There's not a lot of opportunities up here for social mobility. I mean you can either become a hockey player or take up a life of crime (Roadkill; writing credit: Bruce McDonald; Don McKellar) I could of been a pretty good hockey player (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster) | |
Lyrics | Glued to that damn hockey game (RAISED ON ROBBERY; performing artist: Joni Mitchell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hockey (1966) The Hockey Champ (1939) King of Hockey (1936) Canada Hockey Match on the Ice at Montreal (1901) Hockey Match; Quebec (1898) | |
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 | Winter pastimes. While playing hockey with a rubber ball some of the star players discovered ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ice hockey game between Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers for Stanley Cup, showing Rangers Jackie Gordon, Harry Lumley and Leo Reise. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The famous Stanley Cup, emblematic of the World's Hockey Championship [...]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dunbarton College. Hockey field of Dunbarton College I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Holton Arms School. Field hockey game at Holton Arms School I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Switzerland | Cross-country skis and ice hockey equipment again decreased slightly. (references) |
Canada | Growth continues to be strong in the following sports and recreational activities: snowboarding, snowskiing, hiking, golf, exercise, fishing, and hockey. (references) | |
Canada | Domestic manufacturing has established niche segments and is strong in the following sectors: ice hockey equipment, curling equipment, sport whistles, swim goggles and selective outdoor products. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | Police officers responded with tear gas and beat the RPP members with batons and hockey sticks. (references) |
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| "Hockey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.34% of the time. "Hockey" is used about 464 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.34% | 396 | 14,082 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.66% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Total | 100.00% | 464 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hockey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hockey | Last name | 170 | 51,335 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Hockey Company, (The) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "hockey": field hockey ♦ field hockey ball ♦ floor hockey ♦ hockey clinic ♦ hockey coach ♦ hockey game ♦ hockey league ♦ hockey player ♦ hockey puck ♦ hockey schedule ♦ hockey season ♦ hockey stick ♦ hockey team ♦ ice hockey ♦ ice hockey helmet ♦ ice hockey player ♦ ice hockey rink ♦ ice hockey skate ♦ ice hockey stick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hockey": hockey-ball, hockey-match, hockey-players, hockey-playing, hockey-stick, hockey-sticks, hockey-type. | |
Ending with "hockey": ice-hockey. | |
Containing "hockey": ice-hockey player, ice-hockey rink. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hockey | 5,928 | usa hockey | 303 |
equipment hockey | 1,344 | fantasy hockey | 270 |
ice hockey | 1,240 | hockey fight | 267 |
national hockey league | 691 | hockey rumor | 237 |
hockey news | 672 | ticket to watch hockey | 221 |
field hockey | 635 | hockey odds | 216 |
nhl hockey | 634 | hockey spectors | 210 |
hockey jersey | 589 | hockey picture | 208 |
hockey stick | 589 | hockey goalie equipment | 200 |
air hockey | 545 | ccm hockey | 197 |
ice hockey equipment | 524 | american hockey league | 196 |
roller hockey | 481 | hockey game | 192 |
hockey card | 465 | mission hockey | 184 |
youth hockey | 464 | hockey future | 181 |
air hockey table | 421 | hockey camp | 181 |
hockey skate | 403 | ice hockey skate | 177 |
hockey and gear | 353 | hockey monkey | 175 |
hockey hall of fame | 346 | inline hockey | 170 |
hockey trade rumor | 344 | hockey history | 169 |
nike hockey | 343 | hockey giant | 169 |
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| Language | Translations for "hockey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hokkie. (various references) | |
Albanian | hokej. (various references) | |
Arabic | هوكي إسم لعبة, الهوكى لعبة الكرة الخشبية و الصولجان. (various references) | |
Asturian | xoquei en xelu (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хокей. (various references) | |
Cebuano | dula sa yelo (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Chinese | 曲棍球 . (various references) | |
Czech | hokej. (various references) | |
Danish | hockey. (various references) | |
Dutch | hockey. (various references) | |
Esperanto | hokeo, glitpilko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | íshokki (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Farsi | چوگان بازی بااصول فوتبال . (various references) | |
Finnish | jääkiekkokenttä (ice hockey rink). (various references) | |
French | hockey (hoecky). (various references) | |
Frisian | iishockey (ice hockey). (various references) | |
German | hockey (field hockey). (various references) | |
Greek | χόκεϊ σε χόρτο, χακί (khaki). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "וקי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jégkorong (ice hockey, ice-hockey), jéghoki (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | sikukkut hockeytuq (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Italian | hockey. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホスホン酸 (electric carpet, hook, hook and eye, hopper, hot, hot balloon, hot corner, hot curler, hot dog, hot jazz, hot laboratory, hot line, hot money, hot news, hot potato, hot rod, hot spot, hot stand-by, hot war, hotcakes, hot-key, hotpants, hotplate, Hottentot, pancakes, paper fastener, phosphonic acid, stapler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホッケー . (various references) | |
Korean | 하키. (various references) | |
Macedonian | hokej na mraz (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Manx | hockee, cammag (cammag, crutch, hockey stick, shinty). (various references) | |
Mohawk | tsi teyonto'tsinehtahkwa (hockey rink). (various references) | |
Papago | toka (field hockey). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockeyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hquei em campo, hquei, hóquei. (various references) | |
Provencal | hockey sus glaç (ice hockey). (various references) | |
Romanian | hochei. (various references) | |
Russian | хоккей (icing, shinney). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hokej. (various references) | |
Spanish | hockey sobre hierba, hockey sobre hielo (ice hockey), hockey, jockey (jockey). (various references) | |
Swedish | hockey (field hockey, ice hockey). (various references) | |
Thai | กีฬาฮอกกี้ (field hockey). (various references) | |
Turkish | hokey. (various references) | |
Turkmen | hokkeя (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хокей. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khúc côn cầu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hockey": hockeys. (additional references) | |
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"Hockey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hacky, hakey, hicke, Hicky, hoakey, hocka, hocke, hockedy, Hocken, hocker, hockney, hocko, hocky, Hokokai, honckey, Honkey, hoocker, horkey, Hosken, Hoxey, Hucke, hucky, hunkey, huskey, Huzkey, ocky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hockey" (pronounced hÄ"kē) |
| 3 | -Ä" k ē | cocky, jockey, khaki, rocky, Saki, stocky, sukiyaki, teriyaki. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chokey. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-k-o-y" | |
-1 letter: choke, choky, hokey. | |
-2 letters: coke, echo, heck, hock, hoke, okeh, yech, yock, yoke. | |
-3 letters: coy, hey, hoe, hoy, key, oke, yeh, yok. | |
-4 letters: eh, he, ho, oe, oh, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-k-o-y" | |
+1 letter: hockeys. | |
+3 letters: bodycheck, doohickey, shylocked. | |
+4 letters: bodychecks, chokeberry, cockneyish, doohickeys, johnnycake. | |
+5 letters: bodychecked, chokecherry, honeysuckle, hypokalemic, johnnycakes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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