penalty box

noun

: an area alongside an ice hockey rink to which penalized players are confined for the duration of their penalty

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With Wild players going to the penalty box late in the first and second periods, Minnesota kept the Flyers off the board and kept the crowd out of the game by consistently icing the puck, and with Wallstedt smothering pucks in and around the crease. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025 Chloe Kelly delivered a ball on the ground into a penalty box stampede, and Alessia Russo did not waste her chance. Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 Seattle’s Jordyn Huitema tried a header inside the penalty box that Sikowitz kept away from the goal with a leaping effort. Staff, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025 The preseason game took more than three hours to complete, at times saw a half-dozen Lightning players in the penalty box and at one point saw a third-period goal taken off the board because a player that had gotten ejected (Florida’s Niko Mikkola) was on the ice and assisted on the tally. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for penalty box

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of penalty box was in 1907

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“Penalty box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penalty%20box. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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