Hockey Sport

A Hockey Sport is a team sport that involves players using sticks to hit a ball or puck into the opposing team's goal.

• Context:
  • It can be played on various surfaces such as grass, ice, or a gym floor.
  • It can involve using either wheeled or bladed skates, or may not involve skates at all.
  • It typically features two teams competing against each other to score goals.
  • It can have different rules, number of players, and equipment depending on the specific variant.
  • It often requires skills like stick-handling, passing, shooting, and teamwork.
  • It can be played recreationally or professionally, with major leagues and international competitions.
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• Example(s):
  • Ice Hockey, played on an ice rink with skates and a puck, is known for its fast pace and physical play.
  • Field Hockey, played on grass or artificial turf, focuses on ball control and tactical maneuvering.
  • Roller Hockey (Inline), which involves players skating on inline skates on a dry surface, often in a rink.
  • Floor Hockey, typically played indoors in a gymnasium, where players use sticks to maneuver and shoot a ball or puck.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Lacrosse, which involves the use of a stick with a netted pouch to catch, carry, and pass a ball.
  • Hurling and Camogie, which are traditional Irish field games using a wooden stick to strike a ball.
  • Shinty, a game played primarily in Scotland that shares some similarities but has distinct rules and equipment.
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• See: Shinty, Water Sports, Field Hockey, Underwater Hockey, Roller Sports, Inline Hockey, International Inline Skater Hockey Federation#Inline Skater Hockey, Roller Hockey (Quad), Winter Sports, Ice Hockey, Sled Hockey, Bandy.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hockey Retrieved:2024-5-13.
  • Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers of players, apparel, and playing surface, they share broad characteristics of two opposing teams using a stick to propel a ball or disk into a goal.

    There are many types of hockey. Some games make the use of skates, either wheeled or bladed, while others do not. In order to help make the distinction between these various games, the word hockey is often preceded by another word i.e. field hockey, ice hockey, roller hockey, rink hockey, or floor hockey.

    In each of these sports, two teams play against each other by trying to manoeuvre the object of play, either a type of ball or a disk (such as a puck), into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. Two notable exceptions use a straight stick and an open disk (still referred to as a puck) with a hole in the center instead. The first case is a style of floor hockey whose rules were codified in 1936 during the Great Depression by Canada's Sam Jacks. The second case involves a variant which was later modified in roughly the 1970s to make a related game that would be considered suitable for inclusion as a team sport in the newly emerging Special Olympics. The floor game of gym ringette, though related to floor hockey, is not a true variant due to the fact that it was designed in the 1990s and modelled off of the Canadian ice skating team sport of ringette, which was invented in Canada in 1963. Ringette was also invented by Sam Jacks, the same Canadian who codified the rules for the open disk style of floor hockey 1936.

    Certain sports which share general characteristics with the forms of hockey, but are not generally referred to as hockey include lacrosse, hurling, camogie, and shinty.

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