hockey

See also: Hockey

English

An ice hockey game.

Etymology 1

Unknown, 16th century. Of uncertain origin; possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, or from French hoquet.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŏk'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɒki/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑki/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒki

Noun

hockey (uncountable)

1. Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
2. (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.
3. (Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.

Usage notes

• Although there are many variations of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey, "hockey" without a qualifier almost always means ice hockey in the United States and Canada, and field hockey in the Commonwealth, and the full names of the sports are rarely used in these areas except to avoid confusion. For example, neither the ice hockey world cup (World Cup of Hockey) nor the field hockey world cup (Hockey World Cup) include a qualifying term in their official titles.

Synonyms

• ice hockey
• field hockey
• (Canada) shinny, shinny hockey

Derived terms

• air hockey
• ball hockey
• blind hockey
• box hockey
• cosom hockey
• field hockey
• floor hockey
• foot hockey
• grass hockey
• hockey arena
• hockey bag
• hockey ball
• hockey club
• hockey cushion
• hockey dad
• hockey glove
• hockey hair
• hockey jacket
• hockey mask
• hockey mom, hockey mother
• hockey net
• hockey pants
• hockey player
• hockey puck
• hockey rink
• hockey skate
• hockey sock
• hockey socks
• hockey stick
• hockey stop
• hockey tape
• horse hockey
• ice hockey
• ice sledge hockey
• ice sled hockey
• inline hockey
• inline sledge hockey
• inline sled hockey
• knock hockey
• mini hockey
• para-hockey
• pick-up hockey, pickup hockey
• pond hockey
• power hockey
• quad hockey
• road hockey
• roller hockey
• roller sledge hockey
• roller sled hockey
• shinny hockey
• skater hockey
• sledge hockey
• sled hockey
• stand-up hockey
• street hockey
• table hockey
• tonsil hockey
• underwater hockey
• wheelchair hockey

 

Translations

the sport

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: hokkie
• Aghwan: please add this translation if you can
• Aklanon: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: hokej (sq) m
• Arabic: هُوكِي m (hūkī)
• Armenian: հոկեյ (hy) (hokey), մականախաղ (hy) (makanaxaġ)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: ḥoquei m
• Azerbaijani: xokkey
• Basque: hockey
• Belarusian: хаке́й m (xakjéj)
• Bengali: হকি (bn) (hoki)
• Bulgarian: хо̀кей m (hòkej)
• Burmese: ဟော်ကီ (my) (hauki)
• Catalan: hoquei (ca) m
• Central Dusun: hoki
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 曲棍球 (kuk¹ gwan³ kau⁴)

  Mandarin: 曲棍球 (zh) (qūgùnqiú) (field hockey), 冰球 (zh) (bīngqiú) (ice hockey)

• Cree (Plains Cree): ᓲᓂᐢᑳᐧᑕᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ, sôniskwâtahikêwin
• Czech: hokej (cs) m
• Danish: hockey c
• Dutch: hockey (nl) n
• Erzya: эйзюкорня (ejźukoŕńa)
• Esperanto: hokeo (eo)
• Estonian: hoki
• Finnish: jääkiekko (fi), lätkä (fi), hoki (fi)
• French: hockey sur gazon (fr) m (field hockey), hockey sur glace (fr) m (ice hockey), hockey (fr) m
• Galician: hóckey m
• Georgian: ჰოკეი (hoḳei)
• German: Hockey (de) n, Eishockey (de) n (ice hockey)
• Greek: χόκεϋ (el) n (chókeÿ)
• Gujarati: હોકી f (hokī)
• Hebrew: הוֹקֵי (he) m (hokey)
• Hindi: हॉकी m (hŏkī), हाकी (hi) m (hākī), हकी m (hakī), होकी m (hokī)
• Hungarian: jégkorong (hu), hoki (hu)
• Icelandic: hokkí (is)
• Indonesian: hoki (id)
• Inuktitut: haaki, ᕼᐋᑭ (haaki)
• Irish: haca m (field hockey), haca oighir m (ice hockey)
• Italian: hockey (it)
• Japanese: ホッケー (ja) (hokkē)
• Kazakh: хоккей (xokkei)
• Khmer: ហុកគី (hokkii)
• Korean: 하키 (ko) (haki)
• Kyrgyz: хоккей (ky) (hokkey)
• Lao: ຮອກກີ້ (hǭk kī)
• Latvian: hokejs m
• Lithuanian: ritulys m, ledo ritulys m (ice hockey)
• Macedonian: хо́кеј m (hókej)
• Malay: hoki (ms)
• Maori: hōkī
• Mongolian: хоккей (mn) (xokkej)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hockey m

  Nynorsk: hockey m

• Ojibwe (Chippewa): zhooskwada'e-ataadiwag
• Persian: هاکی (fa) (hâki)
• Polish: hokej (pl) m
• Portuguese: hóquei (pt) m
• Romanian: hochei (ro)
• Russian: хокке́й (ru) m (xokkéj)
• Scottish Gaelic: hocaidh m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хокеј m

  Roman: hokej (sh) m

• Slovak: hokej (sk) m
• Slovene: hokej (sl) m
• Spanish: hockey m
• Swahili: mpira wa magongo
• Swedish: hockey (sv), ishockey (sv) (ice hockey)
• Tagalog: haki
• Tajik: хоккей (xokkey)
• Telugu: హాకీ (hākī)
• Thai: ฮอกกี้ (th) (hɔ́k-gîi)
• Turkish: hokey (tr)
• Turkmen: hokkeý
• Ukrainian: гоке́й m (hokéj), хоке́й (uk) m (xokéj)
• Urdu: ہاکی f (hākī)
• Uzbek: xokkey (uz)
• Vietnamese: khúc côn cầu (vi)
• Welsh: hoci
• Yámana: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: האָקי (hoki), האָקיי (hokey)
• Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: hokey f
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

Noun

hockey (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) Feces, excrement.
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”

   • 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone:

     My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.

Etymology 3

See oche.

Noun

hockey (plural hockeys)

2. (darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
   • 1950, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →OCLC; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, →ISBN, page 457:

     As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.

   • 1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, →OCLC:

     Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.

   • 1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 22:

     Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]

References

• “hockey” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Anagrams

• chokey

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ.ki/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: hoc‧key
• Rhymes: -ɔki

Noun

hockey n (uncountable)

1. hockey, almost always field hockey

Derived terms

• hockeybal
• hockeyen
• hockeymasker
• hockeystick
• hockeyveld
• ijshockey
• unihockey
• zaalhockey

Finnish

Etymology

From English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhokːei̯/, [ˈho̞kːe̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -okːei

Noun

hockey

1. hockey

Declension

Inflection of hockey (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		hockey	hockeyt
genitive		hockeyn	hockeyiden hockeyitten
partitive		hockeyta	hockeyita
illative		hockeyhyn	hockeyihin
		singular	plural
nominative		hockey	hockeyt
accusative	nom.	hockey	hockeyt
	gen.	hockeyn
genitive		hockeyn	hockeyiden hockeyitten
partitive		hockeyta	hockeyita
inessive		hockeyssa	hockeyissa
elative		hockeysta	hockeyista
illative		hockeyhyn	hockeyihin
adessive		hockeylla	hockeyilla
ablative		hockeylta	hockeyilta
allative		hockeylle	hockeyille
essive		hockeyna	hockeyina
translative		hockeyksi	hockeyiksi
abessive		hockeytta	hockeyitta
instructive		—	hockeyin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of hockey (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hockeyni hockeyni accusative nom. hockeyni hockeyni gen. hockeyni genitive hockeyni hockeyideni hockeyitteni partitive hockeytani hockeyitani inessive hockeyssani hockeyissani elative hockeystani hockeyistani illative hockeyhyni hockeyihini adessive hockeyllani hockeyillani ablative hockeyltani hockeyiltani allative hockeylleni hockeyilleni essive hockeynani hockeyinani translative hockeykseni hockeyikseni abessive hockeyttani hockeyittani instructive — — comitative — hockeyineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hockeysi hockeysi accusative nom. hockeysi hockeysi gen. hockeysi genitive hockeysi hockeyidesi hockeyittesi partitive hockeytasi hockeyitasi inessive hockeyssasi hockeyissasi elative hockeystasi hockeyistasi illative hockeyhysi hockeyihisi adessive hockeyllasi hockeyillasi ablative hockeyltasi hockeyiltasi allative hockeyllesi hockeyillesi essive hockeynasi hockeyinasi translative hockeyksesi hockeyiksesi abessive hockeyttasi hockeyittasi instructive — — comitative — hockeyinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hockeymme hockeymme accusative nom. hockeymme hockeymme gen. hockeymme genitive hockeymme hockeyidemme hockeyittemme partitive hockeytamme hockeyitamme inessive hockeyssamme hockeyissamme elative hockeystamme hockeyistamme illative hockeyhymme hockeyihimme adessive hockeyllamme hockeyillamme ablative hockeyltamme hockeyiltamme allative hockeyllemme hockeyillemme essive hockeynamme hockeyinamme translative hockeyksemme hockeyiksemme abessive hockeyttamme hockeyittamme instructive — — comitative — hockeyinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hockeynne hockeynne accusative nom. hockeynne hockeynne gen. hockeynne genitive hockeynne hockeyidenne hockeyittenne partitive hockeytanne hockeyitanne inessive hockeyssanne hockeyissanne elative hockeystanne hockeyistanne illative hockeyhynne hockeyihinne adessive hockeyllanne hockeyillanne ablative hockeyltanne hockeyiltanne allative hockeyllenne hockeyillenne essive hockeynanne hockeyinanne translative hockeyksenne hockeyiksenne abessive hockeyttanne hockeyittanne instructive — — comitative — hockeyinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative hockeynsa hockeynsa accusative nom. hockeynsa hockeynsa gen. hockeynsa genitive hockeynsa hockeyidensa hockeyittensa partitive hockeytaan hockeytansa hockeyitaan hockeyitansa inessive hockeyssaan hockeyssansa hockeyissaan hockeyissansa elative hockeystaan hockeystansa hockeyistaan hockeyistansa illative hockeyhynsa hockeyihinsa adessive hockeyllaan hockeyllansa hockeyillaan hockeyillansa ablative hockeyltaan hockeyltansa hockeyiltaan hockeyiltansa allative hockeylleen hockeyllensa hockeyilleen hockeyillensa essive hockeynaan hockeynansa hockeyinaan hockeyinansa translative hockeykseen hockeyksensa hockeyikseen hockeyiksensa abessive hockeyttaan hockeyttansa hockeyittaan hockeyittansa instructive — — comitative — hockeyineen hockeyinensa

Inflection of hockey (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		hockey	hockeyt
genitive		hockeyn	hockeyiden hockeyitten
partitive		hockeytä	hockeyitä
illative		hockeyhyn	hockeyihin
		singular	plural
nominative		hockey	hockeyt
accusative	nom.	hockey	hockeyt
	gen.	hockeyn
genitive		hockeyn	hockeyiden hockeyitten
partitive		hockeytä	hockeyitä
inessive		hockeyssä	hockeyissä
elative		hockeystä	hockeyistä
illative		hockeyhyn	hockeyihin
adessive		hockeyllä	hockeyillä
ablative		hockeyltä	hockeyiltä
allative		hockeylle	hockeyille
essive		hockeynä	hockeyinä
translative		hockeyksi	hockeyiksi
abessive		hockeyttä	hockeyittä
instructive		—	hockeyin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of hockey (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hockeyni hockeyni accusative nom. hockeyni hockeyni gen. hockeyni genitive hockeyni hockeyideni hockeyitteni partitive hockeytäni hockeyitäni inessive hockeyssäni hockeyissäni elative hockeystäni hockeyistäni illative hockeyhyni hockeyihini adessive hockeylläni hockeyilläni ablative hockeyltäni hockeyiltäni allative hockeylleni hockeyilleni essive hockeynäni hockeyinäni translative hockeykseni hockeyikseni abessive hockeyttäni hockeyittäni instructive — — comitative — hockeyineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hockeysi hockeysi accusative nom. hockeysi hockeysi gen. hockeysi genitive hockeysi hockeyidesi hockeyittesi partitive hockeytäsi hockeyitäsi inessive hockeyssäsi hockeyissäsi elative hockeystäsi hockeyistäsi illative hockeyhysi hockeyihisi adessive hockeylläsi hockeyilläsi ablative hockeyltäsi hockeyiltäsi allative hockeyllesi hockeyillesi essive hockeynäsi hockeyinäsi translative hockeyksesi hockeyiksesi abessive hockeyttäsi hockeyittäsi instructive — — comitative — hockeyinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hockeymme hockeymme accusative nom. hockeymme hockeymme gen. hockeymme genitive hockeymme hockeyidemme hockeyittemme partitive hockeytämme hockeyitämme inessive hockeyssämme hockeyissämme elative hockeystämme hockeyistämme illative hockeyhymme hockeyihimme adessive hockeyllämme hockeyillämme ablative hockeyltämme hockeyiltämme allative hockeyllemme hockeyillemme essive hockeynämme hockeyinämme translative hockeyksemme hockeyiksemme abessive hockeyttämme hockeyittämme instructive — — comitative — hockeyinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hockeynne hockeynne accusative nom. hockeynne hockeynne gen. hockeynne genitive hockeynne hockeyidenne hockeyittenne partitive hockeytänne hockeyitänne inessive hockeyssänne hockeyissänne elative hockeystänne hockeyistänne illative hockeyhynne hockeyihinne adessive hockeyllänne hockeyillänne ablative hockeyltänne hockeyiltänne allative hockeyllenne hockeyillenne essive hockeynänne hockeyinänne translative hockeyksenne hockeyiksenne abessive hockeyttänne hockeyittänne instructive — — comitative — hockeyinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative hockeynsä hockeynsä accusative nom. hockeynsä hockeynsä gen. hockeynsä genitive hockeynsä hockeyidensä hockeyittensä partitive hockeytään hockeytänsä hockeyitään hockeyitänsä inessive hockeyssään hockeyssänsä hockeyissään hockeyissänsä elative hockeystään hockeystänsä hockeyistään hockeyistänsä illative hockeyhynsä hockeyihinsä adessive hockeyllään hockeyllänsä hockeyillään hockeyillänsä ablative hockeyltään hockeyltänsä hockeyiltään hockeyiltänsä allative hockeylleen hockeyllensä hockeyilleen hockeyillensä essive hockeynään hockeynänsä hockeyinään hockeyinänsä translative hockeykseen hockeyksensä hockeyikseen hockeyiksensä abessive hockeyttään hockeyttänsä hockeyittään hockeyittänsä instructive — — comitative — hockeyineen hockeyinensä

Derived terms

compounds

• maahockey

 

French

Etymology

From English hockey.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.kɛ/, (Canada) /ɔ.ke/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ, -e
• Homophones: hoquet, hoquets

Noun

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey
2. (North America) ice hockey

   Synonym: hockey sur glace

Derived terms

• cosom hockey
• hockeyeur
• hockeyeuse
• hockey balle
• hockey cosom
• hockey d’antan
• hockey sur gazon
• hockey sur glace
• hockey sur luge
• hockey sur table
• para hockey

Further reading

• “hockey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.kej/
• Rhymes: -ɔkej
• Hyphenation: hòc‧key

Noun

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey

Derived terms

• hockey su ghiaccio
• hockey su pista/hockey a rotelle
• hockey su prato

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hockey.

Noun

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

Derived terms

• hockeykølle
• ishockey

References

• “hockey” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hockey.

Noun

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

Derived terms

• hockeykølle
• ishockey

References

• “hockey” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• jóquey (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxokei/ [ˈxo.kei̯]
• Rhymes: -okei

Noun

hockey m (plural hockey)

1. hockey

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Derived terms

• hockey patines
• hockey sobre césped, hockey sobre hierba, hockey sobre pasto
• hockey sobre hielo

 

Further reading

• “hockey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

From English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔkʏ/

Noun

hockey c (definite singular hockeyn)

1. (sports) hockey
2. (informal) Clipping of ishockey.

Derived terms

• hockeybild c
• hockeyklubba c
• hockeyspelare c
• ishockey c
• landhockey c

References

• hockey in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hockey in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hockey in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)