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Swimming Word Search

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Swimming word search puzzles with pool and stroke English for adults — lap, kick, lane and calm water-sport words. Easy to hard plus large print. No brand names.

Swimming puzzles

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Swimming: Lane Lap

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Swimming: Quiet Kick

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Swimming: Quiet Lane

Hard · 15×15 · 18 words

Hard Swimming: Full Length

Large print · 9×9 · 8 words

Large Print Swimming: Soft Lap

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Swimming: Stroke Drill

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Swimming: Pool Morning

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Swimming: Drill Set

Part of our Sports word search collection.

What words are in the swimming word search?

Pool and stroke English — no club brands.

The full swimming word bank has 57 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:

BACKSTROKE · BLOCK · BOARD · BREAST · BREATH · BUTTERFLY · CAP · COACH · CURRENT · DEEP · DEPTH · DISTANCE · DIVE · DRILL · ENDURANCE · FINISH · FINS · FLOAT · FREESTYLE · GLIDE · GOGGLE · INTERVAL · KICK · KICKBOARD · LAKE · LANE · LAP · LOCKER · MEDLEY · OCEAN · PACE · POOL · PULLBUOY · PUSH · RECOVERY · RELAY · REST · RIVER · SHALLOW · SHOWER · SNORKEL · SPLASH · SPRINT · START · STROKE · SUIT · SWIM · TEAM · TIMER · TIMING · TOWEL · TURN · WALL · WARMUP · WATER · WAVE · WHISTLE

Who is this theme good for?

Sports child theme for lap swimmers.

A solving tip

Long words like FREESTYLE and BACKSTROKE jump out quickly.

How these puzzles work

Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.

Sources & notes

Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.

“chiefly British spelling of color”

— Merriam-Webster

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