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

"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

In it, he is smashing a low, galloping drive with one of those shinty sticks.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

Hockey, or shinty, as it was commonly called, was also a favourite game; but these amusements were chiefly confined to the sons of tradesmen in the town.

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway