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Hockey vs Hurling - What's the difference?

hockey | hurling |

As nouns the difference between hockey and hurling

is that hockey is ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks while hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown.

As a verb hurling is

present participle of lang=en.

hockey

English

(wikipedia hockey)

Etymology 1

Unknown origin, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick.

Noun

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  • (North America) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
  • (British) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
  • A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, or shinny.
    • Synonyms
    * ice hockey * field hockey * (Canada) shinny, shinny hockey
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "hockey") * air hockey * cosom hockey * field hockey * floor hockey * foot hockey * hockey arena * hockey bag * hockey club * hockey cushion * hockey dad * hockey glove * hockey hair * hockey jacket * hockey mask * hockey mom, hockey mother * hockey pants * hockey puck * hockey rink * hockey skate * hockey socks * hockey stick * hockey tape * ice hockey * inline hockey * mini hockey * pick-up hockey, pickup hockey * pond hockey * quad hockey * road hockey * roller hockey * shinny hockey * skater hockey * sledge hockey * sled hockey * street hockey * table hockey * underwater hockey * wheelchair hockey

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (darts)
  • * 1985 , Keith Turner, Darts (page 22)
    • Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys ; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks

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    hurling

    English

    Noun

  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
  • An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

    • Verb

    (head)