US also field hockey [noun] [U] - 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 goalIn America, and sometimes in Britain, hockey can be used to mean ice hockey. See at ice (FROZEN WATER).
HOCKEY
Meaning of HOCKEY in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012