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(games) A game, played upon a table which lightly spurts air out of various holes on its surface in order to reduce friction, where each player must hit a light flat plastic puck into their opponent's goal using their own plastic mallet.
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A domed sports stadium in Houston, Texas.
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(informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
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(games, racing) A novelty race in which each competitor must balance a beanbag on their head while running.
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An informal sport resembling basketball, with the fixed baskets replaced by goalkeepers standing on benches.
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(disability, sports) An adapted form of ice hockey played by people with little to no vision, or with blindfolds. Forwards are typically low-vision, while the goalie is typically blind or blindfolded. An adapted hockey puck is used that is larger than an ice-hockey puck and contains noisemakers.
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(ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
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(ice hockey) To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.
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Any of various hockey sports played indoors.
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(Canada, US, informal) field hockey
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Obsolete form of hockey (“the sport”). [(Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.]
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A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.
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An ice surface delimited and with goal nets which people play ice hockey.
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(Canada, US, ice hockey) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
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(informal, US, Canada) A nickname for any of a number of cities, towns, or communities in the United States or Canada that have a history and reputation of participating in the sport of ice hockey.
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Alternative form of horse hockey [Horse excrement.]
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A form of hockey played on an ice rink with a puck, rather than a ball.
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(US, colloquial) An ice hockey rink.
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(traffic engineering) A system that gives right-of-way at an intersection to traffic approaching from the side on which one is not driving.
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(Britain, of a canal) The side opposite the towpath.
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(skating) The edge of the blade or side of the wheels facing away from the other foot.
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Synonym of sledge hockey
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Short for para ice hockey. [A parasport, an adapted version of ice hockey]
adj
By the side of a sports pitch.
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The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
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(sports) a form of ice hockey played outdoors on the surface of a frozen lake or pond, or other body of water.
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(basketball) To establish a position in the frontcourt on one side or the other of the free throw lane, especially used against smaller defenders.
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(chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
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(Canada and northern US, ice hockey, informal) An arena containing a rink and spectator seating for playing and viewing ice hockey, especially one which is considered to be well-equipped and state-of-the-art.
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(sports) A team sport played on ice on skates and primarily by women, the players using sticks to control a rubber ring and attempting to score goals by landing it in the opponents' net.
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A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.
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(rare) A manager of an ice rink.
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(Canada) Synonym of street hockey.
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the sport of either association football or American touch football played on roller skates.
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(Canada) A box game variant of ice hockey, for two players, with two blade-less "schtick" sticks, a puck, a wooden box with two, three, or five slotted dividers, representing pass/shot opposition for the (possible) middle divider(s), and the goal slots for the two end dividers.
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(obsolete) The game of hockey.
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(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
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Alternative form of sideline [A line at the side of something.]
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A line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
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One who stays on the sidelines; a spectator or nonparticipant.
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(transitive, intransitive, ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) To maintain individual possession of the puck or ball by controlling it with movements of one's stick, especially to do so in a skillful manner.
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(Canada, US) An informal version of hockey (ice hockey) played on a quiet street, with a ball instead of a puck.
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A table-top game version of ice hockey played by two players against each other
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(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
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A two-person sport where players hit a ball on the end of a tether attached to the top of a pole in opposite directions, and the winner is the one who manages to make the tether wrap all the way round the pole.
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(motorsports) Victory by a driver at the three grandest car races in the world, the Indianapolis 500, 24-Hours of Le Mans, Monaco Grand Prix; usually defined as a career achievement and not a season or calendar year achievement
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Three sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
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A sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal by propelling it with a pusher.
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A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponent's goal.
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A sport derived from basketball, played by people sitting in wheelchairs.
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(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
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(ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
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