Sentence examples for body checking from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of body check
I would extend the ban on body checking to 14. (The previous rule permitted body checking for players as young as 11).
AMATEUR HOCKEY Banning body checking against the boards in amateur hockey would reduce spinal injuries, a Canadian doctor said in a medical journal released yesterday.
Although offensively capable, Stevens was largely known for his defensive play and his heavy body checking on opponents.
Feelings of fatness decreased among those in the low body checking condition.
These findings support the theoretical accounts of the relationship between body checking and shape concern and previous findings that suggest that body checking contributes to the maintenance of shape concerns.
But guys, no body-checking opponents over the side!
Body-checking is prohibited, but contact and collisions are inevitable.
This is true of women's college hockey, at least, which doesn't even allow body-checking.
Instead, what he means is closer to what used to be called, in my lexically perverse Canadian youth, body-checking.
His play is so fluid this season, and he is shooting the puck and body-checking with confidence.
