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Spanish Medium Review Quiz - Vocabulary - For the Love of Sports! (Questions)

Do you love to play sports? Playing any sport is a great, healthy way to stay in shape, even if your sport is just walking or jogging. Some people, however, love to participate in leagues such as bowling leagues or baseball leagues or football leagues. Not only does it help tone your body but it’s a way to meet new people and make lots of friends. Sports is loved in virtually every country of the world. Because sports is so important to so many people, in this Spanish Medium Review quiz you will be looking at a variety of different sports.

The Olympics is one avenue through which literally millions of people show their love of sports. In short, sports is almost a language of its own but since you are in the process of learning Spanish, we think that this would be a good time for your to learn some Spanish vocabulary words that involve sports. Are you game for it? Then take a look at the following sports list!

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IT’S ALL ABOUT SPORTS

ENGLISH	SPANISH
ball	pelota [f]
baseball	béisbol [m]
bat	bate [m]
bowling	boliche [m]
boxing	boxeo [m]
coach / trainer	entrenador [m]
competition	competencia [f]
exercise	ejercicio [m] (note that the J sounds like an H)
football	fútbol americano [m]
game	juego [m]
gymnastics	gimnasia [f]
hockey	hockey [m]
hockey stick	palo de hockey [m]
hunter	cazador [m]
hunting	caza [f]
inning	entrada [f]
loser	perdedor [m]
puck	disco [m]
race	carrera [f]
referee	árbitro [m]
score	puntuación [f]
soccer	fútbol [m]
sport	deporte [m]
team	equipo [m]
tennis	tenis [m]
winner	ganador [m]
wrestling	lucha [f]

Did you notice the difference between football and soccer. In many countries, soccer is football so to make it clear that you are talking about the American version of football it is stated as 'fútbol americano'. Remember that if you do not include 'americano' it will simply mean soccer. In addition, in this instance you do not have to capitalize 'americano'.

Now, let’s move on to the quiz. There are ten questions that all have to do with sports. Your task is to find the Spanish word that will answer the question. So let’s move on over to the starting gate! Ready – go!

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This sport has a catcher, a pitcher and bases.

[ ]	tenis
[ ]	boliche
[ ]	béisbol
[ ]	perdedor

This sport involves two people in a ring.

[ ]	boxeo
[ ]	carrera
[ ]	pelota
[ ]	deporte

The person or team that gets the highest one of these wins!

[ ]	juego
[ ]	disco
[ ]	ganador
[ ]	puntuación

You hear the word love in this sport.

[ ]	lucha
[ ]	tenis
[ ]	fútbol
[ ]	caza

This person makes the calls on plays made in a sports game.

[ ]	ganador
[ ]	entrenador
[ ]	árbitro
[ ]	perdedor

You use a puck in this sport.

[ ]	hockey
[ ]	carrera
[ ]	boliche
[ ]	ejercicio

Ten Pins is one form of this sport.

[ ]	lucha
[ ]	boliche
[ ]	competencia
[ ]	caza

Baseball and football would be lost if they didn’t have one of these.

[ ]	juego
[ ]	disco
[ ]	entrada
[ ]	pelota

A person in this sport could sit up in a tree for hours to win his/her game.

[ ]	deporte
[ ]	gimnasia
[ ]	cazador
[ ]	entrenador

10.

You would find parallel bars and pommel horses in this sport.

[ ]	gimnasia
[ ]	equipo
[ ]	competencia
[ ]	carrera

Spanish Medium Review Quiz - Vocabulary - For the Love of Sports! (Answers)

This sport has a catcher, a pitcher and bases.

[ ]	tenis
[ ]	boliche
[x]	béisbol
[ ]	perdedor

The sport that has a catcher, a pitcher and bases is known as baseball. The Spanish word for baseball is béisbol.

This sport involves two people in a ring.

[x]	boxeo
[ ]	carrera
[ ]	pelota
[ ]	deporte

The sport that involves two people in a ring is known as boxing. The Spanish word for boxing is boxeo. (a) is correct.

The person or team that gets the highest one of these wins!

[ ]	juego
[ ]	disco
[ ]	ganador
[x]	puntuación

The person or the team that gets the highest score wins! The Spanish word for score is puntuación.

You hear the word love in this sport.

[ ]	lucha
[x]	tenis
[ ]	fútbol
[ ]	caza

You hear the word love in the sport of tennis. The word tennis in Spanish is tenis. Notice that there is only one N.

This person makes the calls on plays made in a sports game.

[ ]	ganador
[ ]	entrenador
[x]	árbitro
[ ]	perdedor

The person who makes the calls on plays made in a sports game is known as a referee. The Spanish word for referee is árbitro.

You use a puck in this sport.

[x]	hockey
[ ]	carrera
[ ]	boliche
[ ]	ejercicio

You use a puck in the sport of hockey. The Spanish word for hockey is hockey. Pretty easy!

Ten Pins is one form of this sport.

[ ]	lucha
[x]	boliche
[ ]	competencia
[ ]	caza

Ten Pins is a form of bowling. The Spanish word for bowling is boliche.

Baseball and football would be lost if they didn’t have one of these.

[ ]	juego
[ ]	disco
[ ]	entrada
[x]	pelota

Baseball and football would be lost if they didn’t have a ball. The Spanish word for ball is pelota.

A person in this sport could sit up in a tree for hours to win his/her game.

[ ]	deporte
[ ]	gimnasia
[x]	cazador
[ ]	entrenador

A person who could sit up in a tree for hours to win their came would be a hunter. The Spanish word for hunter is cazador.

10.

You would find parallel bars and pommel horses in this sport.

[x]	gimnasia
[ ]	equipo
[ ]	competencia
[ ]	carrera

You would find parallel bars and pommel horses in the sports of gymnastics. The word gymnastics in Spanish is gimnasia.