I Say "Ice Hockey"

to distinguish between the other 3 hockeys

[lawman]

You gotchyer field hockey, yer electric hockey, AND yer bull hockey.

Have I missed any?

[bill]

...air hockey (or is that covered under electric hockey?)

um...I've heard of tonsil-hockey back in high school, but I don't think that's played competitively... ;)

[Rugles]

Canadians laugh when they here someone say "ice hockey". Sure there are other types of hockey, but to use the term "ice hockey" sounds so wrong and uninformed. Call the orginal version just plain "hockey", and add a word describe what kind of hockey you were playing other than the real version.

Do you refer to what is going be played at the super bowl as "tackle football"? I mean if you don't say "tackle football" we may think they will play "touch football" or "flag football".

More... "road hockey" and "floor hockey".

[adni18]

You can't forget computer hockey. :o)

[TheDoctor]

Do you refer to what is going be played at the super bowl as "tackle football"?

That's American football, surely? It certainly isn't just "football". That's a different sport altogether, in which you have to control a ball with your feet.

[olwen]

There's underwater hockey as well. A most strange game. At one stage when I was using a gym attached to a public swimming pool I used to often watch it from the comfort of a spa pool.

[olwen]

It certainly isn't just "football". That's a different sport altogether, in which you have to control a ball with your feet.

The game where you control the ball with your feet is soccer. The real name of football is rugby union, (also known just as rugby and definately not to be confused with rugby league which is normally called league).

Shall we have a football war?

[mfishy]

What do you call that hockey game they have at arcades, where you turn the knobs - it's like a bubble?

[limbo]

Hurling, not ot be confused with curling ;)

[Teknorat]

The game played at the Super Bowl is called Grid Iron people :P

[Rugles]

>>>hockey game they have at arcades, where you turn the knobs - it's like a bubble?

That my friend is a version of "table hockey". Best played in a suburban, wood paneled basement on a cold February day in Canada.

[edit_g]

Street Hockey (on rollerblades).

[httpwebwitch]

pocket hockey

[vkaryl]

webwitch: *laughing* If that has the connotation I'm remembering from YEARS ago....

[pendanticist]

Right Church, Wrong Pew. Think pool as in billiards ;)

[skibum]

Isn't ice hockey what they used to play once in a while in that now defunct boxing league known as the NHL when everyone got to greedy?

[olwen]

My partner says his brother once played roller hockey. Ice hockey for those not blessed with ice I suppose.

[mivox]

Do you refer to what is going be played at the super bowl as "tackle football"?

That's American football, surely?

In the interests of maximum international understanding, I propose we call it "Rugby for wimps who need extra pads."

[davewray]

Rollerhockey (again, with rollerblades)
Lockout hockey (non-existant type)

[supermanjnk]

you do the hockey pokey and you turn yourself around ... er sorry couldn't resist. I used to have one of the table hockey things, it's kind of like foosball but hockey instead.