[mass noun]a team game played between two teams of eleven players each, using hooked sticks with which the players try to drive a small hard ball towards goals at opposite ends of a field. It is also called field hockey to distinguish it from ice hockey 曲棍球(亦称field hockey,以与ice hockey相区别)
The modern game of hockey was codified in 19th-century England, and is played particularly in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. Play begins with a bully or bully off, and the ball is propelled with the flat side of the stick. The field resembles a football pitch, but scoring shots must be played from inside a semicircular line painted around the small goal