hockey player

collocation in English

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hockey
noun[U]
uk
/ˈhɒk.i/us
/ˈhɑː.ki/
UK
a game played on a sports field between two teams of eleven players who each have a curved stick with which they try to put a small, hard ball into the other ...
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player
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpleɪ.ər/us
/ˈpleɪ.ɚ/
someone who takes part in a game ...
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(Definition ofhockeyandplayerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A competitivehockeyplayer, who was diagnosed at age 24, described his coping strategy as a hockey game.
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She went on to become an outstanding woman athlete,hockeyplayer, yachts woman and cyclist.
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He has never played for any foreign clubs like other professional fieldhockeyplayer.
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She is also an accomplished bandy and icehockeyplayer.
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I just wanted to be ahockeyplayer, and if they couldn't accept that fact, that was their problem, not mine.
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He was inspired by his father who himself had been a successful icehockeyplayer.
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Speed is also an important ingredient that makes a good pondhockeyplayer.
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As a child, he was a keen rollerhockeyplayer.
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She was a national-levelhockeyplayerand later adapted singing as profession.
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Amongst other things, he is a good fisher and a goodhockeyplayer.
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Many consider him to be the best ice sledgehockeyplayerin the sport's history.
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As a younghockeyplayer, his potential was not realized for some time.
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A greathockeyplayerplays where the puck is going to be.
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Not only a greathockeyplayer, probably one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
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Orr was an icehockeyplayerwhose career was plagued by recurring leg injuries.
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He was also a good cricketer and ahockeyplayer.
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The award is given to thehockeyplayerwho best exemplifies leadership on the ice with humanitarian contributions off of it.
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Forcing the pace of juniorhockeyplayerdevelopment the team was quite successful in the following years.
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He is considered to be one of the best malehockeyplayerto ever come from that college.
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He was also an avid icehockeyplayer.
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