Hockey has inherited deviations reaching right back into the prehistoric times and cultures. It is a sport in which two teams play in opposition to each other by attempting to move a ball into the challenger`s goal with a hockey stick. There are many types of hockey for instance bandy, field hockey, ice hockey etc.

Different types of Hockey
Following are the different types of Hockey:

Bandy: Bandy is played with a ball on a football pitch-sized ice stadium, in general outdoors and with a lot of rules similar to group football. It is played professionally in Russia and Sweden and it is considered as a national sport in Russia.

Field Hockey: Field hockey is played on rock-strewn, natural grass, or sand-based or water-based artificial grass. It is played with a little, hard ball around 73 mm (2.9 in) in diameter. The game is popular among both males and females in a lot of parts of the world. The game is played between single-sex sides, even though they can be unisex. Men`s field hockey has been played at every Summer Olympic Games since 1908 apart from 1912 and 1924, while women`s field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.

Ice Hockey: Ice hockey is played between two teams of skaters on a big flat part of ice, using a three-inch-diameter (76.2 mm) rubber disc called a puck. The game is played all over North America, Europe and to varying extents in many other countries around the world.

Roller Hockey: Roller hockey is also famous as rink hockey or quad hockey, international-style ball hockey. Two five-man teams attempt to drive the ball with their sticks into the opponents` goal. The ball can only be place in movement by a stick, not the skate. Otherwise a foul will be stated. The game has two 25-minute halves with the clock stopping when the ball becomes dead. Every team has a one-minute timeout in each part. Each team has a minimum of six players and a greatest of ten.

Sledge Hockey: Sledge hockey is designed for players with physical disabilities affecting their lower bodies. Players sit on double-bladed sledges and use two sticks. Each stick has a blade at one end and small picks at the other. Players apply the sticks to pass, stickhandle and shoot the puck and to push their sledges.

Floorball Hockey: Floorball is a variety of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in every team. Men and women play indoors with 96 to115.5 centimetre long sticks and a 22 to 23 centimetre plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods.

Underwater Hockey: Underwater Hockey, also famous as "Octopush" is an internationally played sport in which two teams participate to move a puck from corner to corner the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team`s goal by impelling it with a hockey stick.

Beach Hockey: Beach hockey is a type of street hockey. It is a general view on Southern California beaches. Beach hockey tournament in the whole Asia was held in Goa.

Ball Hockey: Ball hockey game is played in a gym using sticks and a ball, often with a tennis ball.

Broomball: Broomball is played on an ice hockey rink, but with a ball in its place of a puck and a "broom" in place of the ice hockey stick. Instead of skates special shoes are used which have very soft rubbery soles to make the most of hold while running roughly.

Mini Hockey: Mini hockey or knee-hockey is also known as "mini-sticks". Players kneel down and use a small plastic stick which is typically about 15 inches long.

Skater Hockey: Roller hockey is a type of hockey played on a dried out plane using wheeled skates. Joint roller hockey is played in almost 60 countries.