hockey Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net
    field hockey.
  2. noun a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
    ice hockey; hockey game.

WordNet

Hock"ey noun
Etymology
From Hook, n.
Definitions
  1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
  2. The stick used by the players. Written also hookey and hawkey.

Webster 1913