Meaning

(transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
2. (intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
3. (quality control) To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of review or audit, especially one that runs on a backchannel workflow in parallel with the main workflow (and thus is not a rate-determining or throughput-bottlenecking step).
4. The act of backchecking.

Example Sentences

Any time you've got a guy who can score 63 goals, let him, and find someone else to backcheck.

2004, Bruce Driver, Clare Wharton, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey, page 81: A smart defensive player knows when to backcheck the puck carrier and when to backcheck to cover an open player. Hockey has no greater test of your heart and intensity than your willingness to backcheck, particularly at the end of a sustained attack when the other team has suddenly come up with the puck and you are feeling exhausted.

It’s been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and backchecking by everybody.

That was a great backcheck, Gordie.

Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.

Word Forms

• backchecks
• backchecking
• backchecked

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When Should You Use Back check?

Use back check when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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