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Hard transport word search

Hovercraft, rickshaw and the double-decker: twenty-eight vehicles for older kids who know their transport. They hide forwards, backwards and diagonally in an eighteen by eighteen grid.

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  • Airship
  • Ambulance
  • Backhoe
  • Cable car
  • Container ship
  • Double-decker
  • Fire engine
  • Glider
  • Gondola
  • Hovercraft
  • Jumbo jet
  • Kayak
  • Minibus
  • Monorail
  • Police car
  • Rickshaw
  • Sailing boat
  • Seaplane
  • Skateboard
  • Snowmobile
  • Speedboat
  • Steam train
  • Submarine
  • Subway
  • Tour bus
  • Tugboat
  • Unicycle
  • Yacht

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Transport, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Airship
  • Ambulance
  • Backhoe
  • Cable car
  • Container ship
  • Double-decker
  • Fire engine
  • Glider
  • Gondola
  • Hovercraft
  • Jumbo jet
  • Kayak
  • Minibus
  • Monorail
  • Police car
  • Rickshaw
  • Sailing boat
  • Seaplane
  • Skateboard
  • Snowmobile
  • Speedboat
  • Steam train
  • Submarine
  • Subway
  • Tour bus
  • Tugboat
  • Unicycle
  • Yacht

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Transport, extra hard

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About this word search

Snowmobile has a Quebec origin story. Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Valcourt built snow vehicles in the 1930s and launched the small personal Ski-Doo in 1959, which changed winter travel in the North. Seaplane carries Canadian weight too, since float planes still link lakes and coastal communities that no road reaches.

Expect words heading every way across this large puzzle, reversed spellings among them. Kayak reads the same in both directions, which makes it a curious find. Start with CONTAINERSHIP, then look for DOUBLEDECKER, which has lost its hyphen.

Older students can rank the list by speed and then check a few guesses online.

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, students check their own answers.

  • At home and on the go

    Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. 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.

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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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