shinty

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Europe have long since known this and created the culture described by MacIntyre, a veteran of many a shinty team room, to get the best out of such characters.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

Former nurse of 40 years' service Barbara Millar is 80 and also trying out shinty for the first time.

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

The game of hockey, also called shinty or shindy.

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway