Definition

Noun: A specialized instructional session or short course where hockey players receive focused coaching, skill evaluation, and technical instruction to improve their performance.

Usage

This term refers to a structured, often intensive, training event. It is commonly used in sports contexts to describe programs for players of various skill levels, from beginners to advanced. - The community center is hosting a hockey clinic for teenagers this weekend. - She attended a hockey clinic to work on her skating technique. - Professional players sometimes run summer hockey clinics for youth.

Advanced Usage

• "to hold/run a hockey clinic": To organize and conduct such a training session.
  • The university's coaching staff will run a hockey clinic during the break.
• "to be like a hockey clinic" (figurative, informal): Used to describe a situation where one party is thoroughly dominating or instructing another, often in a non-sports context.
  • The experienced debater gave his opponent a hockey clinic on persuasive arguments.

Variants and Related Words

• Clinic: (Noun) A similar short instructional meeting in other fields (e.g., , ).
• Hockey camp: (Noun) A longer, often residential, training program for hockey players.
• Skills session: (Noun) A more general term for a practice focused on specific athletic abilities.

Synonyms

• Instructional session
• Training workshop (for hockey)
• Skills clinic

Related Phrases

• To clinic someone (verb, informal, derived from sports): To defeat someone decisively or to demonstrate superior skill.
  • The veteran player clinicced the rookies during the scrimmage.

Noun

1. a meeting at which hockey players receive special evaluation and instruction