Hard sport word search
Ki-o-rahi, lawn bowls and snowboarding: twenty-eight sports Kiwis play from the beach to the ski field. They hide in all eight directions in an eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Kayaking
- Ki-o-rahi
- Lawn bowls
- Mountain biking
- Netball
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Shot put
- Snowboarding
- Softball
- Squash
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Touch
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
- Waka ama
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| O | S | W | A | K | A | A | M | A | G | Y | E | K | C | O | H | G | U |
| H | O | N | I | E | O | F | M | G | N | H | S | L | R | E | R | E | L |
| S | F | O | H | L | E | D | O | N | I | P | I | L | U | M | S | L | I |
| H | A | T | A | T | G | S | U | I | M | E | G | A | G | D | A | T | I |
| O | L | N | R | O | R | S | N | W | M | A | O | B | B | B | H | I | E |
| T | E | I | O | U | I | I | T | O | I | T | B | T | Y | U | S | S | R |
| P | T | M | I | C | L | L | A | R | W | A | E | E | P | M | A | R | G |
| U | T | D | K | H | L | S | I | T | S | B | L | K | I | N | U | F | N |
| T | C | A | I | F | A | A | N | L | H | L | O | S | C | E | Q | L | I |
| S | Y | B | M | S | B | T | B | A | O | L | F | A | V | I | S | O | L |
| L | C | M | L | I | T | E | I | V | X | X | O | B | R | E | R | G | I |
| W | L | O | L | N | O | A | K | M | N | O | O | N | E | D | N | C | A |
| O | I | A | A | N | O | Y | I | R | A | T | H | L | E | T | I | C | S |
| B | N | V | B | E | F | W | N | T | G | K | A | Y | A | K | I | N | G |
| N | G | X | T | T | N | A | G | S | C | I | T | S | A | N | M | Y | G |
| W | L | H | E | E | F | K | C | T | L | T | E | A | C | N | W | A | E |
| A | T | E | N | G | H | O | P | H | T | C | N | T | H | A | H | R | H |
| L | F | L | A | I | L | R | S | U | R | F | I | N | G | A | T | E | N |
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- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Kayaking
- Ki-o-rahi
- Lawn bowls
- Mountain biking
- Netball
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Shot put
- Snowboarding
- Softball
- Squash
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Touch
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
- Waka ama
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About this word search
Ki-o-rahi is a Māori ball game played on a round field with a target in the middle, and it is played again in many schools. There are lawn bowls clubs in towns all over the country, and in winter snowboarders head for the ski fields from Ruapehu to Queenstown.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions. Mountain biking is the longest at fourteen letters, then snowboarding at twelve. Golf has only four. Ki-o-rahi loses its hyphens and becomes KIORAHI. Five words end in BALL: basketball, volleyball, football, softball and netball, so look at the start of each one.
Hold a quick class vote: which of these twenty-eight sports would you most like to try for the first time?
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
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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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