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5. a game for two teams, usually of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court
8. a game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. The object of the game is to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opponents' goal.
9. a team game, originally played by North American Indians, in which the ball is thrown, caught, and carried with a long-handled stick having a curved L-shaped or triangular frame at one end with a piece of shallow netting in the angle.
10. a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron

1. hockey a game played between two teams of eleven players who use hooked sticks to drive a small hard ball toward goals at opposite ends of a field.
2. a game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small hole
3. a game played on ice or in a field by two teams who try to drive a puck or ball through a goal by hitting it with a stick. More from Merriam-Webster on hockey.
4. a ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia.
6. a game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court. The usual form (originally called lawn tennis ) is played with a felt-covered hollow rubber ball on a grass, clay, or artificial surface.
7. a game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed above each end of the court.