## Meanings
1. A fast team game played on ice in which players use sticks to shoot a puck into the other team's goal.
2. A team game played on grass in which players use curved sticks to hit a ball into the other team's goal.

## Examples
- US stadiums are packed in winter to watch ice hockey.
- Our school team won the hockey match nine to seven.

## Synonyms
- shinny

## Derived Forms
- hockeyist
- hockeyless
- hockeylike
- hockeytown
- nonhockey
- para-hockey
- parahockey
- schlockey

## Etymology
16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, akin to hock (“hook”) + -ey, or from Middle French hoquet (“shepherd's staff, crook”), which resembles a hockey stick, via a diminutive form of Old French hoc from Middle Dutch hoec (“hook”), a cognate of Old English hōc.

## AI Etymology
Hockey is recorded from the 16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, akin to hock (“hook”) + -ey, or from Middle French hoquet (“shepherd's staff, crook”), which resembles a hockey stick, via a diminutive form of Old French hoc from Middle Dutch hoec (“hook”), a cognate of Old English hōc. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “A fast team game played on ice in which players use sticks to shoot a puck into the other team's goal” and “A team game played on grass in which players use curved sticks to hit a ball into the other team's goal”.

## Topics
- Sports & Fitness

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