{
    "term": "hockey",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/sp/sports_team.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a game played on a field by two teams of 11 players, with curved sticks and a small hard ball. Teams try to hit the ball into the other team’s goal.",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **play hockey**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **hockey stick/pitch/player/team**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He plays in the college hockey team."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Olympic hockey squad"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've started playing hockey with a local club."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["field", "ice", "air"],
                "verb + hockey": ["play", "watch"],
                "hockey + noun": ["ball", "mask", "pads"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a game played on ice, in which players use long sticks to hit a hard rubber disc (called a puck) into the other team’s goal",
            "labels": "(North American English)British English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She **plays hockey** in the winter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **hockey stick/puck/rink/player/team**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every Saturday night people would sit in front of their television sets watching hockey."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: other sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["field", "ice", "air"],
                "verb + hockey": ["play", "watch"],
                "hockey + noun": ["ball", "mask", "pads"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɒki/",
                "audio": "ho/hockey/hockey__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɑːki/",
                "audio": "ho/hockey/hockey__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: of unknown origin."
}