icing the puck

1. 1.

   (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal

   Synonymsicing

   Broadermaneuver

   ice hockey

Questions about icing the puck

What does icing the puck mean?

icing the puck means "(ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal".

What is another word for icing the puck?

Close synonyms include icing. 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 icing the puck a common word?

icing the puck 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.