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Hard vacation word search

Boarding pass, jet lag and the phrasebook: travel words for older children and adults with time to kill at the gate. Twenty-eight of them in a big grid, backwards and diagonal ones included.

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  • Adventure
  • Apartment
  • Boarding pass
  • Check-in
  • Cottage
  • Cruise ship
  • Currency
  • Customs
  • Departure gate
  • Excursion
  • Ferry terminal
  • Gas station
  • GPS
  • Highway
  • Itinerary
  • Jet lag
  • Landmark
  • Lounge chair
  • Luggage
  • Museum
  • Phrasebook
  • Road trip
  • Runway
  • Sightseeing
  • Snorkel
  • Souvenir shop
  • Travel pillow
  • Villa

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Vacation, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Adventure
  • Apartment
  • Boarding pass
  • Check-in
  • Cottage
  • Cruise ship
  • Currency
  • Customs
  • Departure gate
  • Excursion
  • Ferry terminal
  • Gas station
  • GPS
  • Highway
  • Itinerary
  • Jet lag
  • Landmark
  • Lounge chair
  • Luggage
  • Museum
  • Phrasebook
  • Road trip
  • Runway
  • Sightseeing
  • Snorkel
  • Souvenir shop
  • Travel pillow
  • Villa

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Vacation, extra hard

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About this word search

GPS is the shortest entry here, just three letters, and in a large grid it is often the hardest to find. Jet lag and Customs are short as well. Departure gate and Ferry terminal are long and stretch across much of the board.

Begin with the long ones, since they are easier to spot and narrow down the rest. Then hunt for the rarer letters, the J in Jet lag, the Y in Itinerary, the X in Excursion. Words go in every direction, including backwards, so check each candidate in all eight lines.

A Phrasebook is handy on a trip to Quebec, and this puzzle is handy at the departure gate while you wait for boarding. It can also be a good warm-up for a geography lesson about travel.

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.

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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