Unicycle hockey is a team sport, similar to roller or inline hockey, except that each player must be mounted on a unicycle ( with both feet on the pedals ) to play the ball.

Unicycle trials is a form of unicycling which involves participants attempting to ride a unicycle over obstacles without any part of the rider touching the ground.

The 13th Unicycle World Championships ( Jul / Aug 2006 ) played host to the first ever " official " Street Freestyle Competition, while the first ever street street competition was truly at the California Mountain Unicycle Weekend in 2004 ( http :// www. unicycling. com / muni / 2004 /).

The unicycling club, known as Gonzo Unicycle Madness, was formed, and to this day organizes an annual 9. 6 mile ride known as " The Foster's Run ," to the " Donut Man " donut shop in Glendora ( originally known as " Foster's Donuts " hence the name of the event ) for strawberry donuts.

* The first Arizona Mountain Unicycle Weekend was held in February 2009, organized by the Arizona Unicycle Club.

* In Australia, Cross County and Downhill are included in UniNats, held by the Australian Unicycle Society every 12-18 months.

Unicycle wheels have to withstand large lateral stresses because, unlike in conventional riding, the rider may jump sideways.

* Zenkov, DV, AM Bloch, and JE Marsden The Lyapunov-Malkin Theorem and Stabilization of the Unicycle with Rider.

* Sheng, Zaiquan ; Yamafuji, Kazuo: Realization of a Human Riding a Unicycle by a Robot.

* Brixen hosted the 16th Unicycle World Convention and Championships ( UNICON ) in July 2012.

Hemming's Unicycle, or " Flying Yankee Velocipede ", was a hand powered monowheel patented in 1869 by Richard C. Hemming

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The circus ' five main acts, Honko the Clown, The Flying Porkowskis: Herb, Pearl and Hammy, Phillipe the Flea, Reginald Cornelius Andronocles III the Lion, along with two tiger sisters, Terri and Marie, and Katie Cannonball ; and all the minor acts, Marvin the Marvellous, Eunice the Unicycle, Francine the Hippo High Diver, Ivan the Semi-Strong Van, Sebastian the Juggling Seal, and Belobrodnik the Ballet Dancing Bear, are having serious problems.

Under the auspices of the Women's Recreation Association, interclass competition is organized in badminton, basketball, field hockey, golf, tennis, and swimming.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

The size of a bandy field is in the range 4, 050 – 7, 150 square metres ( 45 – 65 by 90 – 110 metres ), about the same size as a football pitch and considerably larger than an ice hockey rink.

The Nutter Center, which is just east of Dayton in the suburb of Fairborn, is the home arena for athletics of Wright State University and the former Dayton Bombers hockey team.

Wickwire Field is the university's main outdoor facilities and also is host to the varsity football, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse and rugby teams.

The Edinburgh Capitals is an ice hockey team playing in the Elite Ice Hockey League since the 2005 / 2006 season.

This is in contrast with other sports like Association football and ice hockey, which require the puck or ball to pass completely over the goal line to count as a score.

Field hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks.

In some countries, it is known simply as " hockey "; however, the name field hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey, street hockey or roller hockey.

He also played Senior hockey with the local Foam Lake Flyers of the Fishing Lake Hockey League, winning the league scoring title as a bantam-aged player.

Field hockey is a sport played internationally by both men and women including the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, the quadrennial Hockey World Cups, the annual Champions Trophies and World Cups for juniors.

A game of hockey being played between Germany and Scotland at the 1908 London Olympics

Field hockey was played at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.

Women's field hockey was first played at British universities and schools, and the first club, Molesey Ladies, was founded in 1887.

Traditional grass pitches are far less common in modern field hockey with most field hockey being played on synthetic surfaces.

Born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Bailey played junior hockey with the Edmonton Oil Kings from 1964 to 1967.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

Field hockey is played on gravel, natural grass, sand-based or water-based artificial turf, with a small, hard ball.

Men's field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 ( except 1912 and 1924 ), while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.

Ice hockey is played on a large flat area of ice, using a three-inch-diameter ( 76. 2 mm ) vulcanized rubber disc called a puck.

Men's ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.

Ice hockey is played at a number of levels, by all ages.

Inline hockey is played by two teams, consisting of four skaters and one goalie, on a dry rink divided into two halves by a center line, with one net at each end of the rink.

The game is played in three 15-minute periods with a variation of the ice hockey off-side rule.

Based on ice sledge hockey, inline sledge hockey is played to the same rules as inline puck hockey ( essentially ice hockey played off ice using inline skates ) and has been made possible by the design and manufacture of inline sledges by RGK, Europe ’ s premier sports wheelchair maker.

Street hockey on Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery, for Canada Day in London, England

# Telstar ( model 6040, 1976 ): Three Pong variants ( hockey, handball, tennis ), two paddle controllers fixed on console.

It was one of the most one-sided trades in hockey history – Bucyk went on to play 21 more years with the Bruins.

A successful college hockey coach, Harkness tried to force his two-way style of play on a veteran Red Wings team resistant to change.

Formations provide structure to a field hockey team on the pitch.

* 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.

Sometimes unicyclists on campus also meet to play unicycle hockey.

Modern field hockey sticks are J-shaped and constructed of a composite of wood, glass fibre or carbon fibre ( sometimes both ) and have a curved hook at the playing end, a flat surface on the playing side and curved surface on the rear side.

Ice hockey sticks are long L-shaped sticks made of wood, graphite, or composites with a blade at the bottom that can lie flat on the playing surface when the stick is held upright and can curve either way, legally, as to help a left-or right-handed player gain an advantage.

Inline sledge hockey is being developed to allow everyone, regardless of whether they have a disability or not, to complete up to world championship level based solely on talent and ability.

The first game of inline sledge hockey was played at Bisley, England, on the 19th of December 2009 between the Hull Stingrays and the Grimsby Redwings.

Also known as road hockey, this is a dry-land variant of ice and roller hockey played on a hard surface ( usually asphalt ).