Sports
Across
- 2. any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American football.
- 8. vigorous exercises designed to increase cardiovascular efficiency.
- 9. a game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small holes in the ground, the object being to use the fewest possible strokes to complete the course.
- 10. a game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed at each end of the court.
Down
- 1. exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination. The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on bars, beam, floor, and vaulting horse.
- 3. a sport of unarmed combat derived from ju-jitsu and intended to train the body and mind. It involves using holds and leverage to unbalance the opponent.
- 4. ride a bicycle or motorcycle.
- 5. a team game played between two teams of eleven players each, using hooked sticks with which the players try to drive a small hard ball towards goals at opposite ends of a field. In North America it is called field hockey to distinguish it from ice hockey.
- 6. a game similar to fives, in which the ball is hit with the hand in a walled court.
- 7. an oriental system of unarmed combat using the hands and feet to deliver and block blows, widely practised as a sport.