Sports

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  1. 2. A sport in which two people fight each other with their hands, while wearing very large thick gloves.
  2. 8. The art or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
  3. 10. A game played by two teams of seven players, especially women or girls. Players score by throwing a ball through a high net hanging from a ring on a post.
  4. 12. A Japanese system of fighting in which you use your hands and feet as weapons.
  5. 13. The sport or activity of lifting heavy weights.
  6. 14. A game played on ice, in which players use long sticks to hit a hard rubber disc (called a puck) into the other team’s goal.
  7. 16. A game played especially in the US by two teams of nine players, using a bat and ball. Each player tries to hit the ball and then run around four bases before the other team can return the ball.
  8. 17. The sport of riding on waves while standing on a narrow board called a surfboard.
Down
  1. 1. A game in which two teams of six players use their hands to hit a large ball backwards and forwards over a high net while trying not to let the ball touch the ground on their own side.
  2. 3. The sport of fighting with long thin swords.
  3. 4. A sport in which two people fight by holding each other and trying to throw or force their opponent to the ground.
  4. 5. The sport of skiing down a ski jump and jumping off the end.
  5. 6. A game played by two teams of five players, using a large ball which players try to throw into a high net hanging from a ring.
  6. 7. Sports such as running, jumping and throwing that people compete in.
  7. 9. A game like tennis played by two or four people, usually indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally with feathers around it.
  8. 11. The sport of moving over snow on a board.
  9. 15. game played on grass by two teams of 11 players. Players score points (called runs) by hitting the ball with a wooden bat and running between two sets of vertical wooden sticks, called stumps.