Sports

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Enterprising or ambitious drive (4)
  2. 8. A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery (5)
  3. 9. To run very fast, usually for a short distance (6)
  4. 10. Team sport where you shoot a ball through a hoop (10)
  5. 11. The person who plays that position on a football team (6)
  6. 13. A game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is (8)
  7. 15. Sport where players kick a ball into a net without using their hands (6)
  8. 16. A basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket (4)

Down

  1. 1. A sudden and decisive increase (4)
  2. 3. The location on a baseball field where the ___ is stationed (5)
  3. 4. Bat-and-ball sport played on a diamond (8)
  4. 5. A small indefinite quantity (4)
  5. 6. To desire strongly or persistently (4)
  6. 7. So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth (8)
  7. 12. The act of delivering a blow with the foot (4)
  8. 14. A mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction (4)