Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hockey \Hock"ey\, n. [From {Hook}, n.]
   1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks
      curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small
      object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

   2. The stick used by the players. [Written also {hookey} and
      {hawkey}.]

Source : WordNet®

hockey
     n 1: hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved
          sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net [syn: {field
          hockey}]
     2: a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6
        skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the
        opponents' goal with hockey sticks [syn: {ice hockey}, {hockey
        game}]