shinty

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That’s why earlier this spring he flew home for three weeks with family and his shinty playing mates.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

"Until I came here I didn't know about shinty at all. I didn't know anything about it until the boys started playing."

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2024

Coming from the whisky town of Oban on Scotland’s coast, MacIntyre also plays a local game called shinty that is similar to field hockey.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2022

A shinty player is used to hitting the ball as often with the left as the right face of the stick, which, interestingly, is raked back to as much as a 5-wood in golf.”

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

Two parties are opposed, the one driving the ball with sticks towards the goal, the other driving it in the opposite direction; in short, a game of shinty.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by M'lean, John