Sports

Contents

1Etymology
2History
3Subtypes 3.1Bandy
3.2Field hockey
3.3Ice hockey
3.4Ice sledge hockey
3.5Roller hockey (inline)
3.6Roller hockey (quad)
3.7Street hockey
4Other forms of hockey
5Equipment
6See also
7References

**Etymology**
The first recorded use of the word *hockey* is in the 1773 book *Juvenile Sports and Pastimes, to Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Author: Including a New Mode of Infant Education*by Richard Johnson (Pseud. Master Michel Angelo), whose chapter XI was titled “New Improvements on the Game of Hockey”.^[2] The belief that hockey was mentioned in a 1363 proclamation by King Edward III of England^[3] is based on modern translations of the proclamation, which was originally in Latin and explicitly forbade the games “Pilam Manualem, Pedivam, & Bacularem: & ad Canibucam & Gallorum Pugnam”.^[4][5] The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word “hockey” when he translated the proclamation in 1720, instead translating “Canibucam” as “Cambuck”;^[6] this may have referred to either an early form of hockey or a game more similar to golf or croquet.^[7]
The word *hockey* itself is of unknown origin. One supposition is that it is a derivative of *hoquet*, a Middle French word for a shepherd’s stave.^[8] The curved, or “hooked” ends of the sticks used for hockey would indeed have resembled these staves. Another supposition derives from the known use of cork bungs, (stoppers) in place of wooden balls to play the game. The stoppers came from barrels containing “hock” ale, also called “hocky”.^[9] Contents

1Etymology
2History
3Subtypes 3.1Bandy
3.2Field hockey
3.3Ice hockey
3.4Ice sledge hockey
3.5Roller hockey (inline)
3.6Roller hockey (quad)
3.7Street hockey
4Other forms of hockey
5Equipment
6See also
7References

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