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Field hockey game at Melbourne University. The Barrie Colts applying pressure at the Brampton Battalion net in an ice hockey game.

Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball or hard round disc, called a puck, into the opponent's net or goal, past the goaltender or goalkeeper (often abbreviated goalie), using a hockey stick.

The major forms of hockey are:

• Ice hockey, played on ice with a small, 7- to 8-ounce rubber disc called a puck. Most widely played in the United States, Canada, and Northern Europe. Its most famous league is the National Hockey League. Ice hockey is also played at the Winter Olympics under rules which are minorly different than those of the National Hockey League.
• Field hockey, played with a ball on gravel-, grass-, sand- or water-based artificial turfs, most widely played in Western Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Roller hockey, played in an indoor rink with a ball or a plastic puck, with two of its variants Rink hockey, played with roller skates and Inline hockey, played with inline skates.

The dominant version of hockey in a particular region tends to be known simply as hockey, other forms being more fully specified. For example, in North America, hockey refers to ice hockey, the most common form of the sport in the region, whereas in the UK the same word denotes field hockey.

Ice hockey is played almost exclusively in the northern hemisphere and predominantly in colder regions such as Canada, Russia, the U.S., and Northern Europe (particularly in Scandinavia). Some assert that the game was started in the early 19th century, in Nova Scotia, by Scottish immigrants to Canada, who played on Skinner's Pond with sticks and skates, using cow dung as the puck. Others argue that ice hockey started in Montréal, Québec, other parts of Canada, or Europe.

Field hockey is popular among women at U.S. high schools and colleges, men in East Asia, and both sexes in Western Europe and Australia. Field hockey sticks are smaller than ice hockey sticks. Modern ones have a hooked blade and are only curved right, whereas ice hockey sticks have a long blade that can lie flat on the playing surface when the stick is held upright and can be curved both ways. Rink hockey sticks have a curled "L" shape, and are about the same size as those in field hockey.

In southern European countries (such as Spain, Portugal and Italy) and certain South American countries, especially Brazil and Argentina), the dominant form of hockey is what was above described as rink hockey. In Italy it is spread in the Northern regions, above all in Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Lombardy

Other games derived from hockey or its predecessors include the following:

• mini hockey (or knee hockey) is a form of hockey which is played in basements of houses. Players get down on their knees, using a miniature plastic stick, usually about 15 inches (38 cm) long and a small blue ball or a soft, fabric covered mini puck. They shoot into miniature goals as well. This is popular throughout North America, though it has not yet made the jump to Europe.
• Indoor field hockey is an indoor variation of field hockey.
• Bandy is played with a ball on a football-sized ice arena, typically outdoors. It is in many ways field hockey played on ice.
• Floorball is played in sport halls.
• Rinkball is a Scandinavian team sport, played in a hockey rink with a ball.
• Roller hockey is a variant of ice hockey that is played on concrete, asphalt or (ideally) a roller rink using inline roller skates, and is often played by ice hockey players for training purposes when ice is not available. Roller hockey is also known as rink hockey and Inline hockey.
• Skater hockey is a variant of inline hockey, played with a ball.
• Shinny is an informal version of ice hockey.
• Air hockey and table hockey are played on tables indoors.
• Bubble hockey is played in a plastic sealed table with the 'players' being moved by the use of pushing and turning rods.
• Underwater hockey is played on the bottom of a swimming pool.
• Road hockey is a version of ice hockey played (most typically) on residential streets with or without inline skates, on bare pavement. Games are usually informal with no referee and no set teams. Because the game is played in the middle of the road, it is often interrupted by traffic, at which point someone will yell "car" and players stand to the side of the road to allow the vehicle to pass.
• Ringette is an ice hockey variant that was designed for female players; it uses a straight stick and a rubber ring in place of a puck.
• Broomball is played on an ice hockey rink, but with a ball instead of a puck and a "broom" (actually a stick with a small plastic implement on the end) in place of the ice hockey stick. Instead of using skates, special shoes are used that have very soft rubbery soles to maximize grip while running around.
• Spongee is a cross between ice hockey and broomball and is most popular in Manitoba, Canada. A stick and puck are used as in hockey (the puck is a softer version called a "sponge puck"), and the same soft-soled shoes used in broomball are worn. The rules are basically the same as ice hockey, but one variation has an extra player on the ice called a "rover".
• Shinty is a Scottish Highlands game
• Hurling is an Irish game
• Gym Hockey is a form of hockey played in a gymnasium. It uses a plastic puck and plastic sticks.
• Sledge Hockey is a form of ice hockey played by the disabled. The players sit on sleds, and push themselves up and down the ice with picks on the butt end of their shortened hockey sticks. The game is played with many of the same rules as regular ice hockey.
• Floor Hockey is a form of hockey played in a gymnasium using a plastic puck and plastic sticks.
• Foot Hockey is played using a bald tennis ball and using only the feet. It is popular at elementary schools in the winter.

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