ice hockey
team sport played on ice using sticks, skates, and a puck
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Summary
ice hockey is a type of sport[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of type of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,937 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: Olympic sport[3], team sport[4], sport with racquet/stick/club[5]
- Subclass of: hockey[6], ice skating[7], ice sport[8]
- Commons category: Ice hockey[9]
- Unicode character: 🏒[10]
- Country of origin: Canada[11]
- Authority: International Ice Hockey Federation[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ice hockey[13]
- Commons gallery: Ice hockey[14]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Ice hockey[15]
- OpenStreetMap tag: sport=ice_hockey[16]
- Topic has template: Template:Ice hockey navbox[17]
- Has characteristic: ice hockey hall of fame[18], ice hockey museum[19]
- Different from: field hockey[20], bandy[21], ball hockey[22], ice polo[23]
- Competition class: men's ice hockey[24], women's ice hockey[25]
- History of topic: history of ice hockey[26]
- Uses: ice hockey goal[27], ice hockey stick[28], ice hockey rink[29], Хоккейные коньки[30], ice hockey puck[31]
- Practiced by: ice hockey player[32], goaltender[33], ice hockey coach[34], ice hockey referee[35]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Ice Hockey[37]
Why It Matters
ice hockey has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]