hockey

«hockey» in Mova's school dictionary: a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (hockey)

meaning for a pupil

1) Hockey is a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck, where players try to hit it into the other team's goal. tree →

2) Field hockey is played on grass with a ball. tree →

3) Ice hockey is played on ice with skates and a flat rubber disc called a puck. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE lessons in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand «hockey» usually means field hockey. In Canada and the USA «hockey» means ice hockey, a hugely popular sport in Canada. Safety: wear shin pads, gum shields and helmets; keep sticks low. Phrases: play hockey, hockey stick, ice hockey, field hockey, hockey pitch, hockey rink.

examples

• We play hockey on Wednesdays. tree →
• She scored a goal in the hockey match. tree →
• Ice hockey is Canada's favourite winter sport. tree →
• Keep your hockey stick below your waist. tree →
• The puck slid across the ice. tree →
• He wears a helmet to play hockey. tree →
• Our hockey team won the cup. tree →

note

Uncountable noun: «play hockey» (no «the» or «a»). The meaning depends on the country: in Canada and the USA hockey = ice hockey; in Britain, Ireland, Australia and NZ hockey = field hockey. Ice hockey has six players per side on the ice; field hockey has eleven.

In the corpora

• A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball.
• A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hockey» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.