blue line

noun

: either of two blue lines that divide an ice hockey rink into three equal zones and that separate the offensive and defensive zones from the center-ice neutral zone

Examples of blue line in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Klingberg took a pass from Macklin Celebrini inside the Capitals’ blue line, and hesitated for a moment before Duhaime got on top of him and knocked the puck off his stick and into the neutral zone. —Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025

Dark blue lines show any plowing that has happened in the past 2-4 hours. —Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 2 Dec. 2025

The Lightning took a two-goal lead on a play off the rush as Kucherov gained the offensive blue line, found Hagel back along the left-wing side. —CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025

With the Bruins locked in an OT battle with the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, David Pastrnak made a nice play to corral Nikita Zadorov’s long pass up at the LA blue line and sent a cross-ice pass over to the Geekie on the right side. —Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for blue line

• affine
• airline
• align
• aline
• assign
• baseline
• beamline
• benign
• bloodline
• bovine
• byline
• canine