Things You Need for Sports

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck (4)
  2. 5. Round object used in games (4)
  3. 6. A club used for hitting a ball in various games (3)
  4. 7. Bottom part something stands on; a safe spot in baseball (plural) (5)
  5. 9. A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice ___ (10)
  6. 12. Either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit (6)
  7. 13. Armor plate that protects the head (6)
  8. 14. A ___ that measures a ___ interval and signals its end (5)
  9. 15. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic (6)

Down

  1. 2. The team that has the ball and is trying to score (7)
  2. 3. A goal lined with ___ (3)
  3. 4. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge (plural) (4)
  4. 6. Bat-and-ball sport played on a diamond (8)
  5. 8. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third (plural) (6)
  6. 10. A person who participates in or is skilled at some game (plural) (7)
  7. 11. The handwear used by fielders in playing baseball (5)