Sport word search
Rugby in winter, cricket in summer and netball on a Saturday morning. Twenty sports Kiwis play and watch, from touch to waka ama.
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Football
- Golf
- Hockey
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Netball
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Softball
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Touch
- Triathlon
- Waka ama
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| R | U | G | B | Y | F | S | U | R | F | I | N | G | G |
| N | S | O | F | T | B | A | L | L | F | X | O | N | G |
| M | O | U | N | T | A | I | N | B | I | K | I | N | G |
| T | E | N | N | I | S | L | T | A | K | W | I | P | C |
| O | K | A | Y | A | K | I | N | G | O | M | C | H | R |
| U | P | A | S | H | E | N | H | R | M | L | Y | E | I |
| C | G | T | M | E | T | G | Y | I | N | U | C | L | C |
| H | O | H | E | F | B | E | W | T | E | W | L | H | K |
| E | L | L | N | F | A | S | A | A | T | A | I | O | E |
| E | F | E | E | S | L | P | L | I | B | K | N | C | T |
| R | T | T | R | Y | L | W | A | T | A | A | G | K | W |
| T | R | I | A | T | H | L | O | N | L | A | P | E | T |
| H | M | C | T | H | I | O | M | F | L | M | O | Y | O |
| S | M | S | G | H | F | H | H | F | Y | A | B | T | A |
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- Athletics
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Football
- Golf
- Hockey
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Netball
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Softball
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Touch
- Triathlon
- Waka ama
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About this word search
Rugby may be the national game, but on a Saturday morning New Zealand parks are also full of netball, football, hockey and touch. Summer brings cricket, swimming, surfing and waka ama, and mountain bikers ride the trails from Rotorua to Queenstown all year round.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Mountain biking is the longest at fourteen letters and fills a whole row. Basketball has ten. Golf is the shortest at four. Waka ama becomes WAKAAMA, with two As side by side. Four words end in BALL: basketball, football, softball and netball, so look at the letters before it.
Let everyone circle the sports they play in one colour and the ones they would like to try in another.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
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