Definition of "hockey player" [hockey player]

• An athlete who plays hockey (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Luan Bo, dressed like a hockey player in a helmet and full pads, clambered up on the table in her skates."
• ""Less than a year," Tariq said-He befriended an older man in prison, he said, a fellow named Salim, a Pakistani, a former field hockey player who had been in and out of prison for years and who was serving ten years for stabbing an undercover policeman."
• "He had been christened "Albert Edward," but fortune smiled upon him, making him the champion junior hockey player of the county, so the royal name was discarded with glee, and henceforth he was known far and wide as "Hock" McHenry."