(n.) 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.
(n.) The stick used by the players.
Example Sentences:
(1) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(2) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(3) The diet of seven professional hockey players was studied for one week during the playing season to determine whether food selection could pose a problem for hockey performance.
(4) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
(5) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
(6) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
(7) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, defended the government's planned changes to higher education during an appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night.
(8) She rejected suggestions Hockey had been sidelined by the appointment of the new head of the prime minister’s department, Michael Thawley.
(9) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(10) Physicians have a duty to urge all hockey players to wear adequate head and face protection to prevent such injuries.
(11) Thirty-three cases of retinal detachment following hockey injury were seen during a 15-year period at the retina clinic of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal.
(12) An abdominal hernia caused by blunt trauma in ice hockey.
(13) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
(14) Even without an operation, a recurrent shoulder dislocation did not prevent one-third of the players from continuing with ice hockey.
(15) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(16) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
(17) Hockey carried on in his budget speech about the age pension becoming unaffordable, but within three years this top-end superannuation concession will cost more than the age pension.
(18) Hockey made the order after receiving advice from the government solicitor.
(19) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(20) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
Javelin
Definition:
(n.) A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game.
(v. t.) To pierce with a javelin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Then came the javelin and I threw a personal best.
(2) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
(3) Since the new javelin introduced in 1986 requires a greater explosive force, a tendency to an increased incidence of these alterations must be reckoned with in the future.
(4) Szczesny was also an athlete – he excelled at the javelin – but football gradually took over.
(5) There was more encouraging news for Britain with the 17-year-old Morgan Lake finishing in 17th place having also set a personal best in the javelin as she broke the 6,000 points mark with 6,081.
(6) Likely to go head to head with the London 2012 gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill at the world championships in Beijing in August, as well as at next year’s Olympics, Johnson-Thompson easily tops 1,000 points in five of her events but she struggles in the javelin and the shot.
(7) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
(8) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(9) And her achievement in winning with a total of 6,669 points following consistently impressive results in the long jump, javelin and 800m on Sunday was in some ways greater than that era-defining exercise in managing pressure three years ago.
(10) I try to mentally prepare for the javelin like I do all the other events, but you can’t help but have it in the back of your head that you are going to lose points.
(11) Consideration is also given to the effects of wind velocity, air density, javelin weight and the flutter and spin of the javelin on its flight.
(12) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
(13) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
(14) "The big thing last year was getting ready for and then delivering an excellent Olympics because the Javelin service travelled over our line," says Shaw.
(15) Some of my events have been pretty poor or pretty standard but if I can go and get some proper training in there’s a lot more to come.” Ennis-Hill started day two in third place, behind Theisen-Eaton and the Dutch athlete Dafne Schippers, but after a moderate long jump of 6.16m and a javelin of 42.60m – both way below her best – she had slipped to fifth.
(16) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
(17) Among the names it mentioned were Mariya Abakumova, the javelin silver medallist, and Denis Alekseyev, who anchored Russia’s 4x400m team to bronze.
(18) The trouble with more effective weapons, such as the UK's Javelin, is that they need extensive training by experienced soldiers to be useful.
(19) I’ve got a great long jump and then I go into the javelin and everyone catches up, gains points or goes ahead of me and then I have to run my heart out in the 800m.” Improving her javelin would give her a mental edge too, she believes.
(20) In this paper, the scientific literature and that on the sports sciences relevant to javelin throwing is critically reviewed.