hockey

hockey1
[ˈhɒki]
noun
  1. [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)
  2. 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
hockeyist
noun
  1. (N. Amer.)
语源
  1. early 16th cent.: of unknown origin

hockey2
[ˈɒki, ˈhɒki]
noun
  1. variant spelling of oche
    同 oche
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