Across
- 1. The idea that people can be divided into different groups based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc., or the dividing of people in this way.
- 4. To be fairly happy about doing it and will do it if they are asked or required to do it. Used to describe someone who does something fairly enthusiastically and because they want to do it rather than because they are forced to do it.
- 8. To think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive. To think that someone should behave in a particular way or do a particular thing.
- 11. A situation in which someone is trying to win something or be more successful than someone else.
- 13. A person who is in charge of a sports game and who makes certain that the rules are followed.
- 14. To be in a good state of health or in a good physical condition.
- 15. To cause someone or something to fail. The fact of losing against someone in a fight or competition, or when someone or something is made to fail.
Down
- 2. The general name for a particular group of sports in which people compete, including running, jumping, and throwing.
- 3. A a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to finish first. An attempt to be the first to do or to get something.
- 5. To defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something. When you succeed in dealing with (a problem or difficulty).
- 6. To control a group of people, a country, or a situation. To show the way to a group of people, animals, vehicles, etc. by going in front of them.
- 7. To win or get a point, goal, etc. in a competition, sport, or game. To get a particular number of points on a test or in an examination.
- 9. A point scored in some sports, such as football and hockey, when a player gets the ball into this area.
- 10. To express admiration or approval of the achievements or characteristics of a person or thing. To honour, worship, and express admiration for a god.
- 12. Belonging to or shared between two or more people. A place in your body where two bones are connected.
