Hockey is a term used to signify a group of different kinds of both summer and winter group activities which began on either an outside field, sheet of ice, or dry floor like in an exercise center. While these games shift in unambiguous standards, quantities of players, clothing, and playing surface, they share wide qualities of two rival groups utilizing sticks to drive a ball or plate into an objective.
There are many sorts of hockey. A few games utilize skates, either wheeled or bladed, while others don't. To assist with making the qualification between these different games, the word hockey is in many cases gone before by another word for example field hockey, ice hockey, roller hockey, arena hockey, or floor hockey.
In every one of these games, two groups play against one another by attempting to move the object of play, either a sort of ball or a circle (like a puck), into the rival's objective utilizing a hockey stick. Two prominent exemptions utilize a straight stick and an open plate (actually alluded to as a puck) with an opening in the middle all things being equal. The principal case is a style of floor hockey whose rules were systematized in 1936 during the Economic crisis of the early 20s by Canada's Sam Jacks. The subsequent case includes a variation which was subsequently changed in generally the 1970s to make a connected game that would be thought of as reasonable for consideration as a group activity in the recently arising Unique Olympics. The floor round of exercise center ringette, however connected with floor hockey, is certainly not a genuine variation because of the way that it was planned during the 1990s and displayed off of the Canadian ice skating crew game of ringette, which was designed in Canada in 1963. Ringette was likewise imagined by Sam Jacks, similar Canadian who classified the principles for the open plate style of floor hockey 1936.
Certain games what offer general attributes with the types of hockey, however are not commonly alluded to as hockey incorporate lacrosse, flinging, camogie, and shinty.
Etymology
The principal recorded utilization of the word hockey is in the 1773 book Adolescent Games and Diversions, to Which Are Prefixed, Diaries of the Writer: Including Another Method of Newborn child Schooling by Richard Johnson (Pseud. Ace Michel Angelo), whose section XI was named "New Enhancements for the Round of Hockey". The conviction that hockey was referenced in a 1363 decree by Ruler Edward III of England[2] depends on present day interpretations of the declaration, which was initially in Latin and expressly denied the games "Pilam Manualem, Pedivam, and Bacularem: and promotion Canibucam and Gallorum Pugnam". The English history specialist and biographer John Strype didn't utilize "hockey" when he deciphered the declaration in 1720, rather deciphering "Canibucam" as "Cambuck"; this might have alluded to either an early type of hockey or a game more like golf or croquet.
The word hockey itself is of obscure beginning. One notion is that it is a subordinate of hoquet, a Center French word for a shepherd's fight. The bended, or "snared" closures of the sticks utilized for hockey would without a doubt have looked like these fights, and comparable society derivations exist for the bat-and-ball sports of Croquet and Cricket. Another assumption gets from the known utilization of plug bungs (plugs), instead of wooden balls to play the game. The plugs came from barrels containing "hawk" beer, additionally called "hocky".
Modern Usage
In the greater part of the world, the term hockey when utilized without explanation alludes to handle hockey, while in Canada, the US, Russia and the majority of Eastern and Northern Europe, the term normally alludes to ice hockey.
In later history, "hockey" is utilized regarding either the mid year Olympic game of field hockey, which is a stick and ball game, and the colder time of year ice group skating sports of quibble and ice hockey. This is because of the way that field hockey and other stick and ball sports and their connected variations went before games which would ultimately be played on ice with ice skates, to be specific quibble and ice hockey, as well as sports including dry floors like roller hockey and floor hockey. In any case, the "hockey" alluded to in like manner speech frequently relies upon district, geology, and the size and ubiquity of the game in question. For instance, in Europe, "hockey" all the more ordinarily alludes to handle hockey, while in Canada, it regularly alludes to ice hockey. On account of quibble, the game was at first called "hockey on the ice" and went before the association and improvement of ice hockey, yet was formally different to "quibble" in the mid twentieth 100 years to keep away from disarray with ice hockey, a different game. Quibble, while connected with other hockey games, determines a portion of its motivation from Affiliation football.
Sledge hockey, a variation of ice hockey intended for players with actual handicaps, was made during the 1960s and has since been renamed, "Para-ice hockey".
History
Games played with bended sticks and a ball can be tracked down in the narratives of many societies. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings highlight groups with sticks and a shot, heaving dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a portrayal from roughly 600 BC in Old Greece, where the game might have been called kerētízein (κερητίζειν) in light of the fact that it was played with a horn or horn-like stick (kéras, κέρας).[11] In Internal Mongolia, the Daur public have been playing beikou, a game like present day field hockey, for around 1,000 years.
Most proof of hockey-like games during the Medieval times is found in regulation concerning sports and games. The Galway Rule sanctioned in Ireland in 1527 prohibited particular kinds of ball games, including games utilizing "snared" (stated "hockie", like "hooky") sticks.
...at no tyme to utilize ne occupye the horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or fights, nor utilize no hande ball to play withoute walles, yet just greate foote balle
Quibble, ». a game, similar to that of Golf, where the promotion section parties try to beat a ball (by and large a handle or contort from the storage compartment of a tree,) inverse ways...the stay with which the game is played is crook'd at the end.
By the nineteenth 100 years, the different structures and divisions of noteworthy games started to separate and mix into the singular games characterized today. Associations devoted to the codification of rules and guidelines started to shape, and public and global bodies jumped up to oversee homegrown and worldwide rivalry.
Subtypes
Bandy
Quibble is played with a ball on a football pitch-sized ice field (quibble arena), normally outside, and with many principles like affiliation football. It is played expertly in Russia and Sweden. The game is perceived by the IOC; its global administering body is the Organization of Worldwide Quibble.
Quibble has its underlying foundations in Britain in the nineteenth 100 years, was initially called "hockey on the ice",[16] and spread from Britain to other European nations around 1900; a comparative Russian game can likewise be viewed as an ancestor and in Russia, quibble is some of the time called "Russian hockey". Quibble Big showdowns have been played starting around 1957 and Ladies' Quibble Big showdowns starting around 2004. There are public club titles in numerous nations and the top clubs on the planet play in the Quibble World Cup consistently.
Field hockey
Field hockey is played on rock, regular grass, or sand-based or water-based fake turf, with a little, hard ball roughly 73 mm (2.9 in) in measurement. The game is famous among all kinds of people in many regions of the planet, especially in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Argentina. In many nations, the game is played between single-sex sides, in spite of the fact that they can be blended sex.
The administering body is the 126-part Worldwide Hockey Alliance (FIH). Men's field hockey has been played at each Late spring Olympic Games starting around 1908 with the exception of 1912 and 1924, while ladies' field hockey has been played at the Mid year Olympic Games starting around 1980.
Current field hockey sticks are built of a composite of wood, glass fiber or carbon fiber (in some cases both) and are J-molded, with a bended snare at the playing end, a level surface on the playing side and a bended surface on the back side. All sticks are correct given - left-gave sticks are not allowed.
While field hockey in its ongoing structure showed up in mid-eighteenth century Britain, fundamentally in schools, it was only after the primary portion of the nineteenth century that it turned out to be immovably settled. The main club was made in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London. Field hockey is the public game of Pakistan. It was the public game of India until the Service of Youth Undertakings and Sports proclaimed in August 2012 that India has no public game.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey is played between two groups of skaters on an enormous level area of ice, utilizing a three-inch-measurement (76.2 mm) vulcanized elastic plate called a puck. This puck is in many cases frozen before undeniable level games to diminish how much bobbing and erosion on the ice. The game is played all over North America, Europe and to changing degrees in numerous different nations all over the planet. It is the most famous game in Canada, Finland, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Ice hockey is the public game of Latvia and the public winter game of Canada. Ice hockey is played at various levels, by all ages.
The overseeing group of worldwide play is the 77-part Global Ice Hockey Alliance (IIHF). Men's ice hockey has been played at the Colder time of year Olympics beginning around 1924, and was in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Ladies' ice hockey was added to the Colder time of year Olympics in 1998. North America's Public Hockey Association (NHL) is the most grounded proficient ice hockey association, drawing top ice hockey players from around the globe. The NHL rules are marginally not the same as those utilized in Olympic ice hockey over numerous classes. Global ice hockey rules were embraced from Canadian standards in the mid 1900s.
The contemporary game created in Canada from European and local impacts. These included different stick and ball games like field hockey, quibble and different games where two groups push a ball or item to and fro with sticks. These were played outside on ice under the name "hockey" in Britain all through the nineteenth hundred years, and, surprisingly, prior under different names. In Canada, there are 24 reports of hockey-like games in the nineteenth hundred years before 1875 (five of them utilizing the name "hockey"). The primary coordinated and recorded round of ice hockey was played inside in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Walk 3, 1875, and highlighted a few McGill College understudies.
Ice hockey sticks are long L-molded sticks made of wood, graphite, or composites with an edge at the base that can lie level on the playing surface when the stick is held upstanding and can lawfully bend one way or the other, for left-or right-gave players.
Para ice hockey
Ice sledge hockey, or "para ice hockey", is a type of ice hockey intended for players with actual inabilities influencing their lower bodies. Players sit on twofold bladed sledges and utilize two sticks; each stick has a cutting edge toward one side and little picks at the other. Players utilize the sticks to pass, stickhandle and shoot the puck, and to drive their sledges. The standards are basically the same as IIHF ice hockey rules.
Canada is a perceived global innovator in the improvement of sledge hockey, and a large part of the hardware for the game was first evolved there, for example, sledge hockey sticks covered with fiberglass, as well as aluminum shafts with hand-cut embed edges and extraordinary aluminum sledges with guideline skate sharp edges.
Inline sledge hockey
In light of ice sledge hockey, inline sledge hockey is played to similar standards as inline puck hockey (basically ice hockey played off-ice utilizing inline skates). There is no arrangement point framework directing who can play inline sledge hockey, not at all like the circumstance with other group activities like wheelchair b-ball and wheelchair rugby. Inline sledge hockey is being created to permit everybody, whether or not they have an incapacity or not, to finish up to big showdown level dependent exclusively upon ability and ability.
The primary round of coordinated inline sledge hockey was played at Bisley, Surrey, Britain, on December 19, 2009, between the Body Stingrays and the Grimsby Redwings. Matt Lloyd is credited with concocting inline sledge hockey, and Extraordinary England is viewed as the worldwide forerunner in the game's turn of events.
Roller hockey (inline)
However inline hockey is viewed as a variation of roller hockey a.k.a. "arena hockey", it was gotten from ice hockey all things being equal and uses a kind of hockey puck or a ball. Both roller games utilize a sort of wheeled skate yet inline hockey utilizes inline skates instead of roller skates or "quads".
The puck-based inline variation is more regularly played in North America than Europe while the ball-based variation is more famous in Europe.
Inline hockey puck variation is played by two groups, comprising of four skaters and one goalie, on a dry arena separated into equal parts by a middle line, with one net at each finish of the arena. The game is played in three 15-minute time frames with a variety of the ice hockey off-side rule. Icings are likewise called, however are normally alluded to as unlawful clearing.[26] The overseeing body is the Global Ice Hockey Alliance (IIHF), similarly for what it's worth for ice hockey, yet a few associations and rivalries don't follow the IIHF guidelines, specifically USA Inline and Canada Inline.
Roller hockey (quad)
Roller hockey, otherwise called "quad hockey", "worldwide style ball hockey", "arena hockey" and "Hoquei em Patins", is a general name for a roller sport that utilizes quad skates. It has existed well before the development of inline skates. The game is played in north of sixty nations and has an overall following. Roller hockey was a showing sport at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
Street hockey
Also known as road hockey, this is a dry-land variant of ice and roller hockey played year-round on a hard surface (usually asphalt). A ball is usually used instead of a puck, and protective equipment is not usually worn.
Other forms of hockey
Other games derived from hockey or its predecessors include the following:
- Air hockey is played indoors with a puck on an air-cushion table.
- Beach hockey, a variation of street hockey, is a common sight on Southern California beaches.
- Ball hockey is played in a gym using sticks and a ball, often a tennis ball with the felt removed.
- Box hockey is a schoolyard game played by two people. The object of the game is to move a hockey puck from the center of the box out through a hole placed at the end of the box (known as the goal). The players kneel facing one another on either side of the box, and each attempts to move the puck to the hole on their left.
- Broomball is played on an ice hockey rink, but with a ball instead of a puck and a "broom" (actually a stick with a small plastic implement on the end) in place of the ice hockey stick. Instead of skates, special shoes are used that have very soft rubbery soles to maximize grip while running around.
- Deck hockey is traditionally played by the Royal Navy on ships' decks, using short wooden L-shaped sticks.
- Floor hockey: a variety of games with different codes usually played on foot on a flat, smooth floor surface, usually indoors in gymnasiums or similar spaces.
- Floorball is a form of hockey played in a gymnasium or in a sports hall. A whiffle ball is used instead of a plastic ball, and the sticks are only one meter long and made from composite materials.
- Foot hockey or sock hockey is played using a bald tennis ball or rolled-up pair of socks and using only the feet. It is popular in elementary schools in the winter.
- Gena is a field hockey sport played in Ethiopia, with which the Ethiopian Christmas festival shares its name. The equipment consists of a strong stick curved at one end, and a ball of two kinds: either called srur (made out of a rounded piece of hard-wood) or tsng (made by weaving a long strip of leather into a rounded shape).
- Gym ringette is the off-ice floor variant of the ice skating team sport of ringette rather than ice hockey. It is not a direct variant of the style of floor hockey which helped inspire ringette.
- Gym hockey a.k.a. floor hockey is a form of ice hockey played in a gymnasium. It uses sticks with foam ends and a foam ball or a plastic puck.
- Hurling and Camogie are Irish games bearing some resemblance to – and notable differences from – hockey.
- Indoor hockey is an indoor variant of field hockey.
- Mini hockey (or knee-hockey), also known as "mini-sticks" is a form of hockey played in the United States and Canada in the basements of houses. Players kneel, or crouch, and use a miniature plastic stick, usually about 15 inches (38 cm) long, to manoeuvre a small ball or a soft, fabric-covered mini puck into miniature goals. In England 'mini hockey' refers to a seven-a-side version of field hockey for younger players, played on an area equivalent to half a normal pitch.
- Nok Hockey is a table-top version of hockey played with no defence and a small block in front of the goal.
- Pond hockey is a simplified form of ice hockey played on naturally frozen ice.
- Power hockey is a form of hockey for persons requiring the use of an electric (power) wheelchair in daily life.
- Ringette is primarily a variant of an early 20th century style of floor hockey, but played on ice hockey skates and designed for female players; it uses a straight stick and an air-filled rubber ring in place of a floor hockey puck (open disk). Though played on ice hockey rinks, the rules and strategy differ considerably from those of ice hockey and bear a closer resemblance to basketball. It should not be confused with gym ringette which is the floor variant of the ice sport.
- Rink bandy and rinkball are team sports of Scandinavian origin. Both were influenced by bandy, but are played on ice hockey rinks and involve fewer players on each team.
- Rossall hockey is a variation played at Rossall School on the sea shore in the winter months. Its rules are a mix of field hockey, rugby and the Eton wall game.
- Shinny is an informal version of ice hockey.
- Shinty is a Scottish game now played primarily in the Highlands
- Skater hockey is a variant of inline hockey, played with a ball.
- Spongee is a cross between ice hockey and broomball and is most popular in Manitoba, Canada. A stick and puck are used as in hockey (the puck is a softer version called a "sponge puck"), and the same soft-soled shoes are worn as in broomball. The rules are basically the same as for ice hockey, but one variation has an extra player on the ice called a "rover".
- Table hockey is played indoors on a table.
- Underwater hockey is played with a weighted puck on the bottom of a swimming pool.
- Underwater ice hockey is similar to underwater hockey but played with floating puck on the underside of a frozen swimming pool.
- Unicycle hockey is played on a hard surface using unicycles as the method of player movement. There is generally no dedicated goalkeeper.
Equipment
Protection
- Shoulder pads
- Genital protection, a jockstrap with cup pocket and protective cup or a "jill" for female players.
- Hockey stick








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