Field-hockey synonyms

(Sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.

banty

A short or small, often aggressive person

hurley

(Proscribed) Another term for hurling.

An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.

shinny

(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.

shinty

(Sports) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.

street-hockey

A variation of ice hockey played on pavement by players wearing shoes or in-line skates and often using a ball instead of a puck.

hockey

(UK) 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.

Find another word for field-hockey. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for field-hockey, like: bandy, banty, hurley, hurling, shinny, shinty, street-hockey and hockey.

Field-hockey synonyms

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