hockey player

1. 1.

   an athlete who plays hockey

   Synonymsice-hockey player

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Questions about hockey player

What does hockey player mean?

hockey player means "an athlete who plays hockey".

What is another word for hockey player?

Close synonyms include ice-hockey player. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hockey player a common word?

hockey player is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.