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No, field hockey is a totally different thing. Like ice hockey, field hockey is non-contact, and very slow, and you're not allowed to lift your stick off the surface.
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Ice hockey is a full-contact sport so I don't know what sport you think it is.
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To follow up, my guess is that it's "Bandy" which is a predecessor of ice hockey with sticks and skates, sometimes called ice hockey, but with a much larger rink and less contact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy#Bandy_and_ice_hockey

Ice hockey is generally used to mean the specific Olympic sport invented in Canada and played professionally in the NHL at the same level as the NFL.

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No, it really isn't. You're not allowed hit other players.

In shinty a perfectly acceptable tackle is to hook someone's legs out from under them and then hit them as they go over to make sure they stay down for a bit.

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> No, it really isn't. You're not allowed hit other players

Uh, what? Do you know what a body check is ?

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You've never actually watched an ice hockey game, have you?
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I have. It's pretty mild stuff.
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Reads to me like a typo. They likely meant “unlike”
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