Sports

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Across
  1. 2. a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron.
  2. 5. 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.
  3. 7. the sport or practice of fighting with the fists, especially with padded gloves in a roped square ring according to prescribed rules.
  4. 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.
  5. 10. a game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court.
  6. 11. 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.
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 3. a team game, originally played by North American Indians, in which the ball is thrown, caught, and carried with a long-handled stick having a curved L-shaped or triangular frame at one end with a piece of shallow netting in the angle.
  3. 4. 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.
  4. 6. 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.
  5. 8. a ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases.
  6. 12. an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.