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Hockey

Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a puck or ball into the opponents' goal using a stick. The major forms of hockey are:

• Field hockey, played on grass with a ball.
• Ice hockey, played on ice with a small rubber disc called a puck.

Field hockey was the original form of the game, and in most countries this is the game referred to by the word hockey on its own. Where ice hockey is played more commonly (especially Canada, the USA and Scandinavia), hockey on its own refers to ice hockey. Field hockey sticks are smaller than ice hockey sticks but the general shape is similar.

There are also a number of other derived games:

• Bandy hockey is played on ice with a ball on a football (soccer) size field, typically outdoors.
• Unihockey is played in sport halls.
• Roller hockey is a variant of ice hockey that is played on concrete or asphalt using in-line roller skates.
• Air hockey is played on tables indoors.
• Underwater hockey is played on the bottom of a swimming pool.

External Links

• Canadian Hockey Forum

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