A person who plays hockey.
 Tom is a professional hockey player
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Anybody with the name Gordie should automatically be a good hockey player!
 -  Some people claim he's quite witty (for a hockey player).
 -  I hear she's quite skilled at rescuing inebriated hockey players.
 -  A ragtag group of college hockey players defeated a nearly invincible juggernaut on their way to Olympic gold at Lake Placid.
 -  She's here to check out my female hockey players.
 -  His paper offers additional evidence about the economic plight of qualified French Canadian hockey players.
 -  Hockey players subject themselves to more bodily harm than any other professional athlete, even American football players.
 -  In this job-satisfaction study, symphony musicians were happier than hockey players.
 -  A good example is Wayne Gretzky, considered the greatest hockey player by many.
 -  The current hockey players are a huge improvement over the lads we saw in last year's game.