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hockey rink

• 1 the ice surface, usually surrounded by a board fence, on which hockey is played.

  See also: hockey  rink (def. 1)  

  • 1953  The children maintain their own open air hockey rink on the ice of Green River. . . .
  • 1956  [He was] a boy who had a good fast body on the hockey rink and a surging need to be really good at something. . . .

• 2 a place at which hockey games are played and which has seating accommodation for spectators.

  • 1945  . . . in the early months of the war . . . ratings lived in a converted hockey rink.
  • 1964  Evidence that the Halifax Public Gardens had the first indoor hockey rink in 1863 . . . will also be included, he says.