0 a Scottish team game played with a stick and ball and similar to hockey, with 12 players on each side in the men's version, and usually 10 on each side in the women's:
Shinty - or camanachd as it is traditionally known in the Gaelic-speaking West Highlands - is an ancient game.
Shinty is the Scottish equivalent of hurling. It is played mainly in the Highlands and Islands.
At association level and at club level shinty is run by volunteers.
Shinty may be a team game but it often boils down to a series of man-to-man contests in key areas of the field.
The strength of shinty lies in its communities - the villages, the islands, the townships that compete against each other on a weekly basis.
I would like especially to apply myself to the requisites for shinty.
The shinty championship will go altogether unless transport can be hired.
My constituency is also the stronghold of the world's oldest team sport—shinty.
Kingussie high school, a rural school, offers shinty.
