hockey

• Ice Hockey (The most well known)
• Grass Hockey (Most popular outside of North America)
• Street Hockey (Often interupted by cars)
• Roller Hockey (Birthplace of Inline Roller Skates)

The International Hockey League experimented with a four-quarter game once in 1998, in two games involving the Las Vegas Thunder, in a marketing gambit to see if the game could be standardized into a similar structure as most other timed sports A five-minute break was used between quarters 1 and 2 and quarters 3 and 4, and a 20-30 minute halftime was used. Hockey purists the world over screamed in agony, but more important was the fact that the players and coaches didn't like it, complaining that the five-minute break was worthless, 15 continuous minutes was too short to get a rhythm going, and 30 semi-continuous minutes was too long before they could go back to the locker room for a real break.

Hock"ey (?), n. [From Hook, n.]

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.

© Webster 1913.