Across
- 2. the sport or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows, especially at a target.
- 4. athletic events that take place on a running track and a nearby field; track events and field events.
- 5. a game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court. The usual form (originally called lawn tennis ) is played with a felt-covered hollow rubber ball on a grass, clay, or artificial surface.
- 9. a game for two teams, usually of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court.
- 11. a ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia.
- 12. the competitive sport of ice skating in prescribed patterns ( figures ) and choreographed free skating.
- 13. a fast contact sport played on an ice rink between two teams of six skaters, who attempt to drive a small rubber disk (the puck) into the opposing goal with hooked or angled sticks.
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- 1. the sport of fighting with swords, especially foils, épées, or sabers, according to a set of rules, in order to score points against an opponent.
- 3. a game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed above each end of the court.
- 6. a game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. The object of the game is to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opponents' goal.
- 7. exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination. The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor, and vaulting horse (for women), and horizontal and parallel bars, rings, floor, and pommel horse (for men).
- 8. the sport or activity of grappling with an opponent and trying to throw or hold them down on the ground, typically according to a code of rules.
- 10. the sport or pastime of riding a wave towards the shore while standing or lying on a surfboard.
- 11. the sport or practice of fighting with the fists, especially with padded gloves in a roped square ring according to prescribed rules.
