Suffocating outside for hockey team visiting a resort (8)
I believe the answer is:
asphyxia
'suffocating outside' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'hockey team visiting a resort' is the wordplay.
'hockey' becomes 'hy' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'team' becomes 'XI' (a football team, from Roman numerals for hh).
'visiting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'resort' becomes 'spa' (spa is a kind of resort).
'hy'+'xi'='hyxi'
'a'+'spa'='aspa'
'hyxi' put within 'aspa' is 'ASPHYXIA'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asphyxia that I've seen before include "Suffocation from lack of air in lungs" , "Shortness of breath" , "Oxygen starvation" , "Deprivation of oxygen" , "It's caused by choking or drowning" .)