Huh. We played ball hockey with special hockey sticks with plastic blades (so as not to scratch the gym floor)
When we played indoor hockey, it was with a plastic puck.
With raised reinforcing ribs, that leave very pronounced marks on your legs!
I’d watch that.
Air Hockey
No, have to be “Broomstick Hockey” as air hockey is already a thing.
It’s called “quadball” now because JK Rowling is a transphobe but people still enjoy playing a non-magical version of the game anyway.
I know. It was a deliberate reference.
Oh! whoosh ![]()
That’s the sound of an air hockey table starting up.
“There’s nothing in the rulebook etc etc”
Broomstick Hockey is Curling.
Well, it could also be Ringette.
You’re right, that’s even more appropos. Never heard of it until this minute.
Joking aside, bocce is essentially curling on sand
I grew up in extreme northern Maine, and while ice hockey was the thing to do across the border in Canada, it wasn’t all that popular in my town. No high school team. I think there was an adult league that they let kids play in if they wanted, but no one ever did. I digress …
Up there, in gym class, we had two alternatives, already mentioned but not what we called them. Indoor hockey with sneakers and an orange plastic ball was, “Floor Hockey”. Hockey played on ice, but with sneakers, and brooms and basketball instead of sticks and puck, was called, “Broom Ball.”
Ah yes, what Robert Plant kept repeating at the end of “Battle of Evermore”
And both are basically shuffleboard.
Yup. I bought a bocce set. I don’t think my wife likes it much. We do play darts a lot which is very much like target shooting. We do both.
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