Sports Crossword

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

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5. Team sport played with a ball and goalposts (8)
6. An athletic competition in which a ___ is thrown as far as possible (7)
9. The act of sliding down a snow-covered slope while standing on a ___ (12)
12. An athletic competition that involves ___ into water (6)
13. To move along on ___ skates (10)
14. A sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility (10)
16. A competition that involves ___ as far as possible from a running start (8)

1. A light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races (plural) (7)
2. A game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into (9)
3. The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down (9)
4. The sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle (7)
7. Team sport where you shoot a ball through a hoop (10)
8. Travel by being carried on horseback (6)
10. A form of football played with an oval ball (5)
11. A sport in which participants must travel on skis (6)
15. Racket sport played over a net (6)