penalty box

penalty box

n. 1. An area to the side of an ice-hockey rink or a playing field in which penalized players wait out the time of their penalties. 2. The penalty area in soccer.

penalty box

n 1. (Soccer) soccer another name for penalty area 2. (Hockey (Field & Ice)) ice hockey a bench for players serving time penalties

pen′alty box`

n. an enclosed space at the side of an ice hockey rink for penalized players and certain officials. [1930–35]

penalty box

Area by the side of the rink to which players who break the rules are temporarily banished.

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penalty box - (ice hockey) an enclosed bench to the side of an ice-hockey rink for players who are serving time penaltieshockey game, ice hockey, hockey - a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticksbench - a long seat for more than one personice hockey rink, ice-hockey rink - an ice rink for playing ice hockey

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