Free Printable Sports Crossword Puzzle
For PE teachers, sports camps and the kid who would rather be outside. The list covers ball games (BASEBALL, LACROSSE, VOLLEYBALL), individual events (ARCHERY, TRIATHLON, GYMNASTICS) and the people and places around them (REFEREE, UMPIRE, STADIUM). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 64 clues each time you press the button.
Sports Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 64-clue sports list.
What each size uses from the sports clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 43 sports answers of three to seven letters, such as ARCHERY, POLO and WHISTLE. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 55 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 64 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are COMPETITION, QUARTERBACK and BASKETBALL.
A way to use the sports crossword
Answers run from short ones like PUCK and JUDO on the easy grid up to QUARTERBACK and TOURNAMENT on the hard one, which makes the hard size a fair test for sports-mad teenagers.
All 64 sports clues
- Bow-and-arrow sport
- Indoor venue for games
- Competitor in a sport
- Racket game with a shuttlecock
- Diamond game with bats and gloves
- Court game with hoops
- Sport fought with gloves in a ring
- Team leader on the field
- One who trains a team
- Contest between rivals
- Where tennis or basketball is played
- Bat-and-ball game with a bowler
- Sport on two wheels
- Slam through the hoop
- Grassy playing area
- Gridiron game
- Rule-breaking play
- Player guarding the net
- Game of tees and greens
- Sport of vaults and balance beams
- Protective headgear
- Game played with sticks on ice
- Numbered team shirt
- Japanese grappling art
- Martial art with chops and kicks
- Strike with the foot
- Stick-and-net team sport
- Long-distance footrace
- Gold, silver or bronze award
- Punishment for a foul
- Horseback game with mallets
- Cue sport on a felt table
- Hockey disk
- Passer who calls the plays
- Contest of speed
- Strung bat for tennis
- Official with a whistle
- Race with baton handoffs
- Ice surface for skaters
- Sport of oars and sculls
- Game with scrums and tries
- Points tally
- Round just before the title match
- Start a point in tennis
- Wheeled deck for tricks
- Downhill sport on snow
- Long boards for gliding on snow
- Single plank ridden down slopes
- Football, to most of the world
- Big venue with stands
- Timer for a sprint
- Sport of laps in a pool
- Bring down a ball carrier
- Racket game with love and deuce
- Six-point score in football
- Bracket of games with one winner
- Oval where sprinters run
- Bouncy mat for flips
- Swim, bike and run event
- Cup awarded to the champion
- Baseball's plate official
- Net game with spikes and digs
- Referee's noisemaker
- Mat sport of pins and holds
Printing and the answer key
Print once with answers off, then press Answers and print again for the key. The PNG is rendered at 3× and the answer file saves under its own name. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
