body check

noun

: a blocking of an opposing player with the body (as in ice hockey or lacrosse)

bodycheck

ˈbä-dē-ˌchek 

transitive verb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

In 1995, Quincy High hockey player Matthew Messing wasn’t as fortunate, dying after taking a body check to the chest. —Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023

Romanov also leveled Devils forward Miles Wood with a body check at 12:05 of the second, sparking a melee in near the Islanders net. —Allan Kreda, ajc, 10 Dec. 2022

But Mother Nature pulled off a body check and knocked the tourney to its knees with unseasonably warm weather that led to first a rescheduling and then a cancellation this year. —Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022

So when the physical 6-8, 250-pound Randle gave him a body check with an extended elbow in another box out situation late in the third quarter, Johnson had dealt with enough of the bully ball. —Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2022

Do a full body check, especially under the arms, in and around the ears, inside the belly button, the back of the knees, in and around the hair, between the legs, and around the waist. —Rachel Trent, CNN, 12 July 2021

Orpik separated Cedric Paquette from the puck twice on one shift, Ovechkin leveled rookie Yanni Gourde and Wilson was his usual self, dishing out a handful of crushing body checks. —Stephen Whyno, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018

Enter Florida State, a tenacious defensive team that was willing to reduce an NCAA Tournament second-round game to wrestling-style hand-fighting and body checks, which the referees abided on an on-again, off-again basis. —Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined above