A street hockey puck (100) includes a main body (110) having opposing top and bottom sides (116, 118) and an outer periphery. A plurality of skid assemblies (200) are disposed around the outer periphery of the main body (110). The skid assemblies (200) each include opposing first and second skids (210, 212) having profiles that sit proud of the top and bottom sides (116, 118) of the main body (110), respectively. The first and second skids (210, 212) each include a pin (220) and a pin receiving recess (224). The pin (220) extends longitudinally through the main body (110), and has a distal end and a proximal end. The pin receiving recess (224) of the first skid (210) receives therein the distal end of the pin (220) extending from the second skid (212), and the pin receiving recess (224) of the second skid (212) receives therein the distal end of the pin (220) extending from the first skid (210).

The present invention is a street hockey ball for use in games on hard surfaces. The ball has a core of a low rebound material, and a hard, tough covering material. This invention provides for the height of contact between the ball and the stick to approximate the height of contact between the hockey puck and the stick, and the weight of the ball is likewise designed to approximate a puck. In this way the ball of the present invention simulates the feel and action of a hockey puck, for example providing ice hockey players with a viable training device off the ice.

A hockey puck for playing on a non-ice surface includes an outer ring within which is held a center element. The outer ring includes low friction sliding elements mounted therein. The center element is interchangeable to center elements of different weights, hardnesses and flexibility to vary the playing characteristics of the puck. Center elements with gaps between the center element and the outer ring or with additional weights or liquid are also provided.

A hockey puck includes three separate generally pie-shaped inner core segments, a pair of protuberances on each of a pair of opposite sides of each inner core segment, and an outer enclosure generally cylindrical in configuration and defining three pie-shaped compartments that respectively surround and separately contain the inner core segments in spaced relations from one another. The outer enclosure has pairs of apertures in each of a pair of opposite faces thereof such that the pairs of protuberances on opposite sides of the inner core segments protrude through the pairs of apertures in opposite directions and substantially the same distance outwardly from the opposite faces of the outer enclosure so as to define glider elements protruding from the opposite faces of the outer enclosure for slidably engaging a hockey playing surface and supporting the outer enclosure and inner core segments in a spaced relationship above the hockey playing surface. The outer enclosure also is made of a material that provides shock absorbing inner and peripheral wall portions between and around the inner core segments which respond to impacts by reducing bounce of the hockey puck during play.

Aerodynamically augmented hockey puck design uses the dynamics of airflow around a moving body to assist in overcoming the unwanted forces of friction that inherently exist between two opposing surfaces and may be used on either an ice or other non-ice playing surface. The puck influences airflow through a symmetric ducted venting system designed to duct or vent air from multiple inlets positioned above a boundary layer to opposing outlets. The ducted venting system reduces pressure differentials between the inlet and outlet of the air channel. Circular center pocket cavities of the upper and lower planar surfaces of the hockey puck are vented to the opposite edge of the outer cylindrical surface of the hockey puck. Elliptical air channels extend radially from the circular center pocket cavity and are symmetrically placed and positioned above the boundary layer around the outer cylindrical surface of the puck.