Hockey is a sport in which two teams fight each other by using hockey sticks to try to manipulate the ball or ice hockey into each other's goal. There are many types of hockey, such as strip hockey, field hockey and ice hockey.

Usually, a variant of the sport, such as hockey or ice hockey, will dominate a region and be referred to as "hockey.".

Ice hockey is played on a large area of ice between two skaters, using a 3-inch (76.2 mm) diameter vulcanized rubber disc called ice hockey. Ice hockey is usually frozen before a high-level game to reduce bounce and friction on the ice. The game is played in different parts of North America, Europe and many other countries in the world. It is the most popular sport in Canada, Finland, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Ice hockey is a national sport in Latvia and a national winter sport in Canada. People of all ages can play hockey at multiple levels.