4. US also field hockey (n) a game played on a sports field between two teams of eleven players who each have a curved stick with which they try to put a small hard ball into the other team's goal In America, and sometimes in Britain, hockey can be used to mean ice hockey. See at ice (F R O Z E N W A T E R) .
+1
5. ice hockey, game played on ice with sticks curved at one end and a flat puck; field hockey, game played on a field with sticks curved at one end and a ball
