Sports word search
Football, judo and skating: twenty sports in a grid, from softball to rowing, with words across, down and diagonally. For field day, gym class or the week of the Olympics.
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Climbing
- Cycling
- Dancing
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Judo
- Riding
- Rowing
- Running
- Skating
- Skiing
- Softball
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track
- Volleyball
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionSports
Name
| I | T | E | I | R | E | P | L | T | E | N | N | I | S |
| T | L | C | N | V | O | L | L | E | Y | B | A | L | L |
| R | G | N | I | P | A | F | D | R | H | F | O | L | S |
| A | U | D | N | B | V | G | O | A | L | G | A | E | T |
| C | O | Y | T | A | N | Y | P | O | N | B | O | O | G |
| K | N | F | O | I | E | M | G | I | T | C | O | N | T |
| P | O | E | N | K | G | N | T | E | O | B | I | D | T |
| S | E | N | C | N | I | A | K | Y | V | L | A | N | M |
| T | U | O | I | M | K | S | O | P | C | B | C | L | G |
| R | H | D | M | S | A | T | O | Y | U | O | T | F | L |
| A | I | I | O | B | S | I | C | S | S | X | U | C | I |
| R | W | D | H | H | E | C | R | O | W | I | N | G | R |
| S | U | K | O | S | H | S | K | I | I | N | G | F | E |
| J | A | S | C | L | I | M | B | I | N | G | G | A | I |
Find these words
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Climbing
- Cycling
- Dancing
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Judo
- Riding
- Rowing
- Running
- Skating
- Skiing
- Softball
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track
- Volleyball
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About this word search
Two sports on this list were invented in Massachusetts within a few years of each other. James Naismith came up with Basketball in Springfield in 1891, and William Morgan created Volleyball in nearby Holyoke in 1895 as a less strenuous indoor game.
No word on this fourteen-row grid is reversed, though some cut across on a slant. Ten of the entries end in ING, from Swimming to Climbing, so any ING you spot could belong to almost any of them.
For gym class or field day, ask kids to sort the list into team sports and solo sports. Football, Hockey and Softball are easy calls. Tennis and Rowing start a debate, since both can be done alone or with a partner or crew.
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 English (New Zealand) too
The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand), Spanish, French, and German, 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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