Hockey Word Search with Mystery Word — Printable & Free
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Words to find
- ARENA
- CAPTAIN
- GLOVES
- GOALIE
- HELMET
- ICING
- OFFSIDE
- PENALTY
- PERIOD
- PUCK
- REFEREE
- RINK
- SHOOTOUT
- SKATES
- STICK
- WINGER
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Keyboard: arrows to move, Enter to start a word, arrows to extend, Enter again to confirm, Esc to cancel.
Lace up for a hockey word search full of the gear, positions and rink talk you hear on game night.
Here you will find the player's equipment, the positions on the ice, the rules that make the whistle blow and the stages of a game from the opening drop to sudden death. Young fans in Canada know these words from the stands, and the French translations help bilingual families and language classes.
The page has three levels, easy, medium and hard, with grid sizes from 8×8 to 20×20. Easy grids read only left to right and top to bottom; medium adds diagonals, and hard allows backwards words as well. Every grid is generated and then checked automatically by software, so each word appears exactly once. It is free, needs no sign-up, and prints with an answer key.
The words in this theme
With the French translation, or a short definition: handy for French immersion or a bilingual class.
- PUCK la rondelle
- STICK le bâton
- SKATES les patins
- HELMET le casque
- GLOVES les gants
- GOALIE le gardien
- DEFENSE la défense
- FORWARD l'attaquant
- WINGER l'ailier
- RINK la patinoire
- ASSIST la passe décisive
- PENALTY la punition
- OFFSIDE le hors-jeu
- ICING le dégagement refusé
- FACEOFF la mise au jeu
- PERIOD la période
- OVERTIME la prolongation
- SHOOTOUT la fusillade
- ZAMBONI la surfaceuse
- JERSEY le chandail
- CAPTAIN le capitaine
- ARENA l'aréna
- REFEREE l'arbitre
- SLAPSHOT le lancer frappé
- PLAYOFF les séries
- BLUELINE la ligne bleue
Suggested school level
Grades 1-4 (ages 6-10): easy 8×8; grades 5-8 move to medium or hard
Classroom activity idea
Print different grids for the team or class in batches of 1, 5, 10 or 30 copies. After solving, each player picks one rule from the list, explains what causes it, and says how the game restarts. Then the group can invent a silly rule for a ball-hockey scrimmage.
Classroom use is allowed: print as many copies as your students need, free of charge, with no sign-up.
Rule words are long and run together without a space, so they stand out; find them first, then work on the short gear words.