Which Winter Olympic team sport is played on ice with sticks and a puck?

The Winter Olympic team sport played on ice with sticks and a puck is ice hockey.

In ice hockey, two opposing teams use curved sticks to control a hard vulcanized-rubber puck and shoot it into the opponent’s net. A standard team has six players on the ice at once: three forwards, two defensemen and a goaltender, though substitutions happen frequently during play.

The sport’s modern form developed in Canada, with the first recognized indoor game played in Montreal in 1875. Men’s ice hockey debuted at the 1920 Summer Olympics and moved into the Winter Olympic program in 1924. Women’s ice hockey became an Olympic event at Nagano 1998.

Curling also takes place on ice, but athletes slide stones toward a target rather than using sticks and a puck. Ringette uses a rubber ring and straight sticks, while bandy is played with a ball on a much larger ice surface. Those similarities make them plausible distractors, but the puck-and-stick description identifies ice hockey.