roller hockey

English

Noun

roller hockey (uncountable)

  1. a form of hockey played on roller skates and a roller rink.
    • 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, pages 132-133:
      So of course his sons played roller hockey, Mike and Sean both, they’d been playing since they could walk, and had practically grown up at that rink and on skates, that was what you called them, not Rollerblades, the rolling footwear was a means to an end, to play hockey was what mattered.