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Broom-ball

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1896, OED Evaluation: Originally North American

A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Now what's this new sport with the idea of knocking a ball around. Is it called broomball or what?
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ultimate frisbee too um- Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: But like um- and broomball, yeah, but those are- I'm not- those aren't real- oh and baseball-
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
I- dunno what else we did. We did some broomball, and. Interviewer: I think broomball's fun. Speaker: Yeah, broomball's pretty good.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
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Not- not too much basketball we played hockey we played baseball, played broomball, played floor-hockey, we played hide-and-seek, and- and had little street gangs.
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Interviewer: What kind of sports? Speaker: Well baseball and ah broomball and ah-
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I played basketball and a bit of volleyball and we played baseball a bit. And then ah, I played broomball for a few years but it wasn't school it was kind of extracurricular and-that-kind-of-thing. Interviewer: Could you sort-of explain the rules of broomball to me please? Speaker: Oh, well broomball was a game that was- it was like a fad I guess. It lasted about twenty-five years. And it was big when- when we were young in the seventies. And broomball was- it's like hockey. Only thing, you played it on ah- they were almost like sneaker shoes with a padding of foam and you had a broom and a ball and it was basically the same rules as hockey. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And it was very big. It was a very big thing here for many years. We used to have a broomball tournament that- that iced- sixty teams would take three arenas.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
Speaker: And it's gone, it's- there's no more broomball, it's- it's over, it's done with.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: broomball. Speaker: Broom- yeah broomball on skates. Ah grade four to eight I was at Swastika-Public-School. Four-room-school, two grades in each room, ah grade eight we had four grade eight students, I don't remember how many were in grade seven I was pretty small. Um and we always had of course soft-ball and well at the time, girls weren't allowed to play hockey, so we played broomball on skates. Ah rather than, I-mean traditionally you're on boots.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
Um (laughs) but um we're in the- and it was very great because it was a old um- in the old arena and as kids you didn't get to play there very much 'cause your in town there was a big broomball league and a boy's-hockey of course that occupied a lot of the ice-time and um what else would there be?
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
he outdoor rinks I mean we played like um I don't know the schools now, but we you-know for broomball and-so-on we had our outdoor rink in Swastika. We had to shovel it ourselves. Um for the most part- I don't think the janitors did that, I wouldn't think so. I- I remember we shovelled the rinks and ah that's where we played broomball and boys played hockey 'cause girls weren't allowed at the time- I was allowed in Kenogami, but not.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
And they finally were allowing girls into minor hockey. So it was fourteen years after. It was a (inc) fairly large gap. Um but um no we played, like you said broomball on skates which was a compromise they said.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
I remember when we played broomball without helmets. But mom made me wear helmet when I was playing- going back to elementary-school, no helmets.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
A lot of the times you'd play broomball 'cause the ice wasn't terribly good for skates, but um ah yeah we, you-know, get out there and play.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
But the problem- there were problems, why she said- Erin said that there's ah generally broomball because broomball doesn't require very good ice.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
But ah ah they had at that time in Kirkland, they had ah kind-of ah competition among the schools that- for the girls, instead of hockey they played broomball, but they played it on skates. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Sp-- sp-- it sped the game up. It was like hockey with ball, but you're on- on- on skates. It's much much faster than the broomball, but not quite as fast as hockey.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
But they had ah- oh and on the reserve too, (inc) broomball was in there eh? But r-- real broomball, not skates eh? And ah Erin's gang the- I wish I could find the- see if I- knew where the picture was. That's pretty well your broomball team. But the little kids- the boys had ho-- went in- they got skates and went in and played hockey against the N-M-R kids in town. If you get to town. There was no league or-anything. But if we got to town- we knew the- the pilot in there and the game-warden or the game-wardens and they were good at this kind of stuff. They- they go out of their way to fit you in eh? To get the kids in there. And ah they- they would- Erin's gang- I don't think they ever lost, they tied a couple of times, but they generally won on the broomball.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I-mean, I played hockey until I was twelve and then I wasn't allowed to in those days because girls weren't allowed to play hockey. Interviewer: No. Speaker: Yeah and I played broomball. Interviewer: Oh tell me about that, I don't know what that is. Speaker: You don't know what broomball is? Well instead of ah- you play with running shoes on. And it was on the outdoor rink in Swastika. We had an outdoor rink in Swastika. And ah you- you have broomball shoes which we running shoes but they had a special sole on them. And you had a broom which was cut off. The bristles were cut off to where- that. And you had a ball about that size and ah you hit it. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: And I- and it- and everybody played it. It went- went 'til we were growing up. We were grown up women with children and we still played broomball.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: In elementary school, you know Jackson-Ross, me, him, and my twin Jason used to play broomball. Interviewer: broomball? What's that? Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: I-don't-know, it was like- the-- these sticks with styrofoam ends at the end. Or I-guess that makes sense.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um, yeah, we'd play, like, ah, broomball, I-don't- do you know what that is? You're on the ice with these, like, kind of special shoes, with grip on them, and you have a- like a- broom-like pole, I guess, and then on the end it's like a hard plastic thing, and there's a big- big blue ball. And you have to hit it into the net.
A team game similar to ice hockey and played on ice, but in which the players wear shoes or boots rather than ice skates and use (specially designed) brooms in attempting to push a ball into their opponents' goal.