From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hockey \Hock"ey\, noun [From {Hook}, noun]
1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
2. The stick used by the players. [Written also {hookey} and {hawkey}.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net [syn: {field hockey}]
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 [syn: {ice hockey}, {hockey game}]
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