The word "helmet" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a protective headgear made from hard material to protect your head from injuries. For example: I always make sure to wear a helmet when I ride my bike.
The reason for this conflict, Schelling explained, was that not wearing a helmet conferred a slight advantage on the ice; crucially, it gave the player better peripheral vision, and it also made him look fearless.
One guy, sweaty and breathless, with his helmet tucked under his arm, was swishing his baton through the air, re-enacting his best shots.
Alexander Lapko, a senior specialist at the Nato liaison office in Kiev, wrote in October in the New York Times that his family had to spend $2,400 £1,6155) on a uniform, boots, gun sight, flak jacket and helmet for his brother, who was issued only a Kalashnikov assault rifle when he joined the army last year.
I say he, but I suppose it could have been a woman under the helmet.
If you were in a restaurant and your date wore a robot helmet, what would you do?
I might have got away with it as well, if only I'd remembered to leave my cycle helmet outside.
He was hit on the helmet by a fast, straight bouncer he lost sight of, but he was back into line next ball.
What a relief!" Or how, upon overhearing a group of German children at the Pegasus bridge museum casting doubt on whether he could have been wearing the helmet with the bullethole in it and still lived to tell the tale, he took the helmet out of the display case, put it on and used a pen to match the hole to the scar on his scalp.
At the time, players were allowed, but not required, to wear helmets, and most players chose to go helmet-less, despite the risk of severe head trauma.
For the moment, I'm going to keep my angst under control, and my daughter helmet-free.
Perhaps the best snapshot, though, was Jade "The Headhunter" Jones's helmet-hurling gold in the taekwondo; fearless British female excellence was the Games's constantly recurring storyline.
