From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
hockey
n 1: hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved
sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net [syn:
field hockey]
2: a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6
skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the
opponents' goal with hockey sticks [syn: ice hockey,
hockey game]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hockey \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.
[1913 Webster]
2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and
hawkey.]
[1913 Webster]