n. an indoor team-sport derived from hockey, in which the players, on foot, use a long stick to carry and pass a rope or felt ring resembling a quoit with a view to directing it into a goal.
- 1960  The English apparently learned from the Acadians the special arts of building dikes and aboiteaux.
- 1963  Innisfail Eagles hockey coach . . . held a floor hockey session . . . to get players " into shape."
- 1964  The league standings are practically immaterial . . . in the finer arts of floor hockey.