Sports criss-cross

Fourteen sports in one grid, SKI and GOLF crossing GYMNASTICS, FOOTBALL and SWIMMING. BOWLING is «a game of rolling a heavy ball to knock down pins»: each clue describes how the sport is played, so it works for a class that has heard the name but never seen the game.

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1G2G3HOCKEY4B5S6H7CLMAKAYF8PN9SWIMMINGCOAEDLLSB10RUGBYI11D12FOOTBALLANAIL13BOWLINGRCLL14TENNISS

What is on this sheet

Grid
17 × 11
Clues
14
Across
6
Down
8

Across

  1. 3. A fast team sport played with curved sticks and a puck
  2. 9. A sport of moving through water using arms and legs
  3. 10. A rough team sport played with an oval-shaped ball
  4. 12. A team sport where players kick a ball toward a goal
  5. 13. A game of rolling a heavy ball to knock down pins
  6. 14. A racket sport played over a net, often in pairs

Down

  1. 1. A game where players hit a small ball into holes
  2. 2. A sport of tumbling, flips, and balance on equipment
  3. 4. A bat-and-ball sport with innings and four bases
  4. 5. To glide down a snowy slope on two long boards
  5. 6. A team sport where players throw a ball into a goal by hand
  6. 7. A sport of racing or riding on a two-wheeled bike
  7. 8. A team sport played on horseback with mallets
  8. 11. A game of throwing small pointed pins at a target

About this puzzle

The grid has no black squares: it is whatever shape fourteen interlocking words make, and each word crosses at least one other. The clues are the same ones used everywhere else on this site for those words, written plainly for a classroom. Print it and the answer key comes on the second page; open it in the maker to swap in your own words and clues.

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