Sports words bring energy to syllable drills — bounce a ball once per syllable, or run one step per beat. Ideal for PE warm-ups that sneak in literacy.
2 Syllable Sports Words
baseball
base-ball
bowling
bowl-ing
boxing
box-ing
football
foot-ball
hockey
hock-ey
player
play-er
running
run-ning
soccer
soc-cer
swimming
swim-ming
tennis
ten-nis
tennis
ten-nis
Sports words with other syllable counts
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