How to Use the Hockey & Rugby Calorie Calculator
Hockey and rugby are high-intensity sports played across a wide field or rink, combining constant running with physical contact and bursts of acceleration — often burning more per minute than soccer or basketball. This calculator multiplies your body weight and game duration by a MET (metabolic equivalent) value for your sport, estimating calories burned during a game or practice. Heavier body weight and sports with more contact and ground coverage both push the total burn higher.
Three sports are covered. Field hockey, played with a stick across a wide pitch, sits at MET 7.8. Ice hockey, with its repeated bursts of skating acceleration and sudden stops, runs slightly higher at MET 8.0. Rugby, with constant tackling, contact, and full-speed sprints, is the most intense of the three at MET 8.3. Select whichever sport you play for a more accurate estimate.
This result is based on sport-level average intensity. Actual burn can vary with position, level of competition, and how often you're substituted. High-mobility positions like forwards may run higher than this estimate, while a goalkeeper's more static role may run lower — use this as a general reference.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ice hockey is slightly higher. The repeated skating bursts of acceleration and stopping give it a marginally higher per-minute burn than field hockey in this calculator.
Yes, in reality positions like forward and goalkeeper cover very different distances. This calculator uses a sport-level average intensity, so treat the result as a reference figure.