Hard sports word search
Taekwondo, triathlon and pole vault: twenty-eight sports for older children and the family sofa during a big tournament. The words hide in every direction in an eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Archery
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Canoeing
- Cricket
- Diving
- Fencing
- Handball
- High jump
- Hurdles
- Javelin
- Karate
- Long jump
- Pole vault
- Relay
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Skateboarding
- Snowboarding
- Squash
- Surfing
- Table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Touch footy
- Trampolining
- Triathlon
- Water polo
- Wrestling
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Make your own versionSports, extra hard
Name
| F | E | X | E | L | H | V | S | Y | M | G | N | I | C | N | E | F | H |
| L | I | Y | R | E | H | C | R | A | A | R | T | C | S | K | O | H | D |
| I | A | C | O | B | I | T | G | I | C | L | O | I | C | U | D | L | T |
| I | M | M | L | B | W | N | T | A | B | L | E | T | E | N | N | I | S |
| A | G | T | O | M | A | H | C | R | S | S | H | R | E | G | O | G | S |
| M | A | O | P | H | O | D | E | C | R | I | C | K | E | T | W | N | S |
| G | E | U | R | N | C | P | M | U | J | G | N | O | L | D | K | I | K |
| N | L | C | E | O | M | A | I | I | C | O | T | O | I | N | E | F | A |
| I | J | H | T | L | R | G | N | I | N | I | L | O | P | M | A | R | T |
| V | A | F | A | H | L | R | L | O | E | T | A | R | A | K | T | U | E |
| I | V | O | W | T | L | U | A | V | E | L | O | P | I | H | Y | S | B |
| D | E | O | G | A | A | G | P | O | B | I | A | N | V | S | E | G | O |
| A | L | T | N | I | B | B | D | I | H | A | N | D | B | A | L | L | A |
| C | I | Y | I | R | E | Y | O | E | N | V | T | G | L | U | N | S | R |
| G | N | I | L | T | S | E | R | W | E | O | N | I | I | Q | C | F | D |
| B | E | G | I | R | A | K | H | U | R | D | L | E | S | S | D | G | I |
| D | A | G | A | E | B | E | P | M | U | J | H | G | I | H | W | K | N |
| R | U | H | S | N | O | S | N | O | W | B | O | A | R | D | I | N | G |
Find these words
- Archery
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Canoeing
- Cricket
- Diving
- Fencing
- Handball
- High jump
- Hurdles
- Javelin
- Karate
- Long jump
- Pole vault
- Relay
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Skateboarding
- Snowboarding
- Squash
- Surfing
- Table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Touch footy
- Trampolining
- Triathlon
- Water polo
- Wrestling
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About this word search
Handball on this list could mean two very different games. In most Australian school playgrounds it is the game where a ball is hit into squares drawn on the ground, while at the Olympics it is a fast team sport with goals at each end. Touch footy is another local favourite, a non-tackle form of rugby league played in parks across the country.
Twenty-eight sports are tucked into this eighteen by eighteen grid, some reading in reverse and some on a diagonal. Snowboarding and Skateboarding share the ending BOARDING, which can trick you into circling the wrong one. The Q in Squash, the K in Taekwondo and the V in Javelin and Pole vault are good early targets.
Older students might sort the sports by whether they need a ball, water or a board, then compare their lists.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, pupils check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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