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What is shinty?

What is shinty? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sports) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.
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The sports club also have sections playing tennis, squash, archery and shinty.
Critics also claim that staging shinty in summer thrusts the game into competition with other sports.
It makes you wonder how shinty has survived as an organised sport for the last 120 years.
Some Saturdays in Oban could see more home games than there are shinty pitches to accommodate them.
They are as different as rugby union and rugby league, shinty and hurling, Test match and one-day cricket.
A full programme of heavy athletics and shinty is on offer too, with a fireworks display providing a spectacular climax.

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