Shinty

Shinty, also known as camanachd, or iomain, is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Now played almost exclusively in the Scottish Highlands, but formerly more widespread, the sport was derived from the same root as the Irish game, hurling and is similar to bandy. Shinty also is the forebearer of ice hockey, Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia playing a game on ice in 1800 at Windsor. In Canada, informal hockey games are still called shinny.

Related Topics:
Sport - Scottish Highlands - Hurling - Bandy - Ice hockey - Scottish - Nova Scotia - Windsor - Shinny

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In the Scottish Lowlands, it was formerly referred to as common/cammon (caman), cammock (from Scots Gaelic camag), knotty and various other names.

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Scottish Lowlands - Scots Gaelic

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