Hockey
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Hockey is a family of stick sports where two opposing teams use hockey sticks to propel a ball or disk into a goal. There are many types of hockey, and the individual sports vary in rules, numbers of
In most of the world, the term hockey when used without clarification refers to field hockey
The word "hockey" in Canada, the United States, Russia, and most of Eastern and Northern Europe, typically refers to ice hockey
Bas relief approx. 600 BC, in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Field hockey
Bandy
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Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. Bandy is sometimes considered th
Hockey
…is used in reference to either the summer Olympic sport of field hockey, which is a stick and ball game, and the winter ice team skating sports of bandy and ice hockey. This is because field hockey and other stick and ball sports and their related variants preceded games which would eventually be played…
Swedish Championship, Women's final, 2015
Detail from Brueghel's 1565 The Hunters in the Snow
Making of a historic bandy ball in stages, from the original cork on the left to the final ball painted red, with a modern bandy ball to far right
Kazakh stamp featuring bandy (допты хоккей dopty khokkey, "ball hockey")