Popular Sports Word Search for Kids: Soccer, Baseball and Tennis

Seven of the most played and watched sports in the world. Soccer is the most popular of all; cricket is huge in India, Pakistan, England and Australia; baseball rules summer in the United States, Japan and the Caribbean; rugby, tennis, golf and swimming have fans everywhere.

Ball games, a racket game, a club game and a water sport: a good start to sorting sports by how they are played.

Popular Sports Vocabulary: 7 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 7 read backwards. The longest words are Baseball and Swimming, with 8 letters each.

Baseball: A bat-and-ball game of nine innings, America's "national pastime".
Cricket: A bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven, hugely popular in India, England and Australia.
Golf: A game of hitting a small ball into a series of holes in as few strokes as possible.
Rugby: A team game with an oval ball that can be carried, kicked and passed backwards.
Soccer: The world's most popular sport, called football in most countries.
Swimming: Moving through water using the arms and legs.
Tennis: A racket game played over a net by two or four players.

How to Solve the Popular Sports Word Search

"Baseball" and "Swimming", 8 letters each, fill whole columns: "Baseball" runs upward and "Swimming", with the only M and W, runs down. "Cricket" also runs down. "Rugby" and "Soccer" run upward. "Golf", with the only F, reads backwards and "Tennis" across.

How Long the Popular Sports Word Search Takes

6 players have solved this puzzle on their first try, and they took a median of 28 seconds. Half of them finished between 25 seconds and 45 seconds. None of them needed a hint.

Times measured on Word Search Free, online play only, first attempt per player. Updated 2026-10-15.

PE Class Sports Activities

Sort the sports into ball games and others.
Vote on the class's favorite sport and graph the results.
Name the equipment each sport needs.