1 a game that is played on a field (pitch) by two teams of eleven players who try to hit a small hard ball into a goal with a curved wooden stick (hockey stick) 曲棍球（有两支比赛队伍，每队十一人，双方在球场上用曲棍球球棍把球打进对方球门） In the US hockey is usually called field hockey to show that it is not ice hockey. 在美国，曲棍球一般叫做field hockey，以跟冰上曲棍球(ice hockey)区分开来。 ☞picture at sport 见sport插图

2 (US 美) =ICE HOCKEY