(sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.) Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Hypernyms (hat trick is a kind of...): score (the act of scoring in a game or sport) Domain category: hockey; hockey game; ice hockey (a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks)