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.

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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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Sport: A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, and a scoring system. The differ...

Scottish Highlands: :This article pertains to the geographic region of the Scottish Highlands. See Highlander for alternate meanings...

Hurling: For the Cornish sport of hurling, see Hurling the Silver Ball....