Printable Lacrosse Word Search

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IDMIDFIELDJCVIP

UEFACEOFFPUSCIM

HELMETROBSHAFTP

EECFRDINTNLGROA

IAAADSCMRFEPMWR

ESHIHFLBROAVQLU

IRZOPPENALTYEPU

NLHYBBAGTFRPBOF

KAISTNRSTETABCV

NVIAXWISAOGSFKR

ZGOVGHZKCROSSET

TCREASELKJAESTP

WEOCIZCRADLEKRT

LDVIFFOGIXIZDMS

FCESIDELINEFACD

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CreaseCREASE
MidfieldMIDFIELD
SidelineSIDELINE
GoalieGOALIE
AttackATTACK
CrosseCROSSE
ShaftSHAFT
PocketPOCKET
HelmetHELMET
CradleCRADLE
PassPASS
ClearCLEAR
SaveSAVE
FaceoffFACEOFF
PenaltyPENALTY

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Answer key: Lacrosse Word Search

IDMIDFIELDJCVIP

UEFACEOFFPUSCIM

HELMETROBSHAFTP

EECFRDINTNLGROA

IAAADSCMRFEPMWR

ESHIHFLBROAVQLU

IRZOPPENALTYEPU

NLHYBBAGTFRPBOF

KAISTNRSTETABCV

NVIAXWISAOGSFKR

ZGOVGHZKCROSSET

TCREASELKJAESTP

WEOCIZCRADLEKRT

LDVIFFOGIXIZDMS

FCESIDELINEFACD

CREASE, MIDFIELD, SIDELINE, GOALIE, ATTACK, CROSSE, SHAFT, POCKET, HELMET, CRADLE, PASS, CLEAR, SAVE, FACEOFF, PENALTY

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The Field 20

Alley The lane along each edge of the field where defenders run to get open for a pass.
Arc A curved line marked in front of the net in the women's game.
Arena An indoor building with seats, where the indoor game is played.
Boards The walls around the indoor playing surface.
Box The marked rectangle at each end of the field. The indoor game has the same name.
Crease The circle around each goal. Attackers may not step inside it.
Draw circle The ring at the center of the field in the women's game, where play starts.
Endline The boundary at each end. The goals stand well inside it, so play goes on behind them.
Fan A marked area in front of the net in the women's game, wide like the thing that cools you.
Floor What indoor players call their playing surface.
Goal circle The women's game's name for the ring around the net.
Hash mark A short line on the edge of the arc where a fouled player sets up for a free shot.
Lane A clear path to the net. A fouled shooter in the women's game is given one.

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The Field, continued

Midfield The middle part of the field, where play starts again after every score.
Midline The stripe across the middle that splits the field into two halves.
Perimeter The outside ring of the attack area, where the offense passes the ball around.
Sideline One of the two long edges of the playing area.
Turf Artificial grass. The indoor game is often played on it.
Wing A marked area out by the edge where midfielders wait while two rivals fight for the ball.
Zone One part of the field. Also a defense in which each player guards an area.

Players and Positions 21

Attack The players who stay near the other team's net and do most of the scoring.
Center The midfielder who takes the draw in the women's game.
Coach The adult who runs the team and may ask for a timeout.
Creaseman An indoor attacker who works right in front of the net.
Defender A player whose job is to keep the other team from scoring.
Defenseman One of the players who stay back by their own net, often carrying a long pole.
First home An old name for the attacker nearest the net in the women's game.
Fogo A specialist who fights for the ball at the opening whistle, then runs straight off.
Goalie The player who guards the net, and the only one who may touch the ball by hand.
Goaltender The formal name for the player in the crease who stops shots.
Middie A short name players use for the position that covers both ends of the field.
Midfielder A player free to run the whole field, on offense and on defense.
Point An old name for the defender nearest her own net in the women's game.
Referee The person who starts play with a whistle and calls the fouls.
Rover A sixth running position that the indoor game dropped long ago.
Runner Any player in the indoor game who is not guarding the net.
Shooter The player who is letting the ball fly at the net.
Teammate A player on your own side.
Third man An old women's position: the defender who marked the other side's third home.
Transition An indoor player who defends first, then races up the floor to start a fast break.
Umpire What the person in charge of the rules is often called in the women's game.

Stick and Gear 30

Aluminum A light metal used for many hollow handles.
Ball It is solid rubber, and it may be white, yellow or orange.
Chest protector The big pad that covers a goalie's front.
Cleats Shoes with studs on the sole for grip on grass.
Crosse The rule book's name for the stick. It comes from a French word.
Elbow pads Arm padding. Attackers often wear bigger ones because they get checked the most.
Face mask The guard on the front of a helmet that protects the face.
Gloves Padded hand protection. A goalie's pair has extra padding on the thumbs.
Goggles Eye protection worn by field players in the women's game in the United States.
Head The top of the stick, shaped roughly like a triangle, that holds the netting.
Helmet Hard headgear with a face mask, worn by every player in the men's game.
Hickory The tree whose wood traditional sticks are steamed and bent from.
Leather In a traditional pocket, strips of it run down the head from scoop to throat.
Mesh Woven nylon netting, the most common way to string a pocket today.
Mouthguard A molded piece worn over the teeth to protect them.
Nylon The strong man-made string used to tie a pocket together.
Plastic What the head of a modern stick is molded from.
Pocket The pouch of string or mesh in the head, where the ball sits.
Pole Slang for the long stick that defensemen carry.
Rib pads Extra padding for the sides of the body, worn in the indoor game.
Rubber The solid, bouncy material the ball is made of.
Scoop The top edge of the head, which slides under a ball lying on the grass.
Shaft The long handle of the stick, usually a hollow metal tube.
Shooting string A lace woven across the upper pocket to tune how the ball leaves the stick.
Shoulder pads Upper-body padding worn in the men's field and indoor games.
Sidewall Either side of the head. The pocket strings tie into holes along it.
Stick What every player carries: a long handle with a netted head for the ball.
Tape A sticky strip wrapped around a handle, or over its open end.
Throat The narrow bottom of the head, where it joins the handle.
Uniform The matching outfit that all the players on one team wear.

Skills and Plays 27

Body check Legal contact, front or side, on a player who has the ball or is close to a loose one.
Carry To run with the ball in the stick from one spot on the perimeter to another.
Catch To take a thrown ball into the pocket.
Clamp To trap the ball under the stick head at the opening whistle.
Clear To move the ball out of your own end and across the middle of the field.
Cradle To rock the stick back and forth as you run so the ball stays in the pocket.
Cut A quick run toward the net by a player without the ball, hoping for a pass.
Draw How the women's game starts: two sticks press the ball between them, then lift.
Drive To run hard at the net with the ball.
Fast break A rush at the net before the defense can get back.
Ground ball A loose one rolling on the grass, which any player may scoop up.
Intercept To snatch a pass meant for the other team.
Invert An offense in which the midfielders and the attackers swap places.
Man-to-man A defense in which each player guards one opponent.
Outlet The first pass from a goalie after a stop, to start the ball upfield.
Pass To throw the ball to a teammate.
Pick An attacker stands still in a defender's path to free a teammate.
Poke check A defender jabs the stick straight at the ball carrier's hands, like a pool cue.
Rebound A shot that bounces back into play off the goalie or the frame.
Ride To chase and pressure a team that is trying to bring the ball out of its own end.
Rotate To move in turn through the spots of a set offense.
Save What the goalie makes by stopping a shot.
Screen To stand in front of the goalie so that a shot is hard to see.
Shoot To fire the ball at the net.
Slap check A short two-handed swat at the ball carrier's stick or glove.
Slide A defender leaves his own man to stop a ball carrier who has beaten a teammate.
Stick check A legal tap on an opponent's crosse to knock the ball loose.

The Game 27

Baggataway A name for an early form of the game. It is an Ojibwe word.
Contact Bumping an opponent. The men's game allows it and the women's game does not.
Faceoff How the men's game starts: two players crouch over the ball and fight for it.
Field The outdoor playing area. Also the name of the outdoor men's game.
Free position A restart, often a free shot, given to a fouled player in the women's game.
Goal The netted frame at each end. A ball shot into it scores.
Halftime The long break in the middle of a game.
Horn A loud blast. In youth games a coach can ask for one to swap players when the ball goes out.
Intercrosse A no-contact version played with an all-plastic stick head and a soft, hollow ball.
Lax A short nickname for the sport.
Man down Playing one short because a teammate is serving a penalty.
Man up Having an extra player because the other team has someone serving a penalty.
On the fly How players are swapped while the game goes on, with no stop in play.
Out of bounds Where the ball is once it crosses a sideline or an endline.
Overtime Extra play when the two teams are level at the end.
Penalty box Where a player who has fouled sits out while the team plays short.
Period A timed part of a game. The traditional indoor game is split into three.
Possession Having control of the ball.
Quarter One of the four equal parts of a game.
Score To put the ball in the other team's net. Also the count of goals so far.
Self-start In the women's game, getting play going again yourself after a minor foul against you.
Shot clock A countdown: the offense must fire at the net before it runs out.
Stickball The family of Native American games that the modern sport grew out of.
Sudden victory A way to settle a level game: the next goal wins.
Timeout A short stop in play that a team asks for.
Turnover Losing the ball to the other team.
Whistle What the referee blows to start and stop play.

Fouls and Penalties 24

Cross-check A shove with the part of the handle between the hands. Legal only in the indoor game.
Delay of game Slowing the restart, for example by not backing away when told to.
Ejected Sent out of the game and not allowed back.
Foul Any breaking of the rules that an official calls.
Green card Shown in the women's game, often for delaying the restart.
Holding Grabbing an opponent, or an opponent's stick, to slow them down.
Interference A technical foul named for getting in an opponent's way.
Moving pick An illegal screen: the player setting it fails to stand still.
Offside Having too many players on one half of the field.
Penalty The price of a foul: time off the field, or the ball handed to the other team.
Personal The more serious kind of foul, called for moves that could hurt someone.
Pushing Shoving an opponent, which counts as a technical foul.
Red card Shown for a very bad foul. The player is out of the game.
Releasable Said of a penalty that ends early if the other team scores.
Roughness Contact far harder than the play needs. The foul's full name starts with unnecessary.
Shooting space A women's rule that keeps defenders out of the path between a shooter and the net.
Slashing Hitting an opponent with a wild or hard swing of the stick.
Stalling Keeping the ball without making any real move to attack.
Technical The less serious of the two kinds of foul in the men's game.
Three seconds A women's foul: a defender stays in the arc too long without marking anyone.
Tripping Making an opponent fall by catching the feet or legs.
Violation Any breaking of a rule, such as stepping into the goal circle.
Warding off A ball carrier uses the free hand to push a defender's stick away.
Yellow card Shown in the women's game for a dangerous foul. The player sits out for a while.

How this list was compiled: Lacrosse words chosen and defined for this site in six themed lists (the field, players and positions, stick and gear, skills and plays, the game, fouls and penalties), with a favorites list, an easy list and a hard list. Terms and rules were checked on 2026-10-09 against the English Wikipedia articles Lacrosse, Field lacrosse, Women's lacrosse, Box lacrosse, Lacrosse stick, Lacrosse ball, Lacrosse strategy, Face-off and Goaltender (field lacrosse), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse (CC BY-SA 4.0), and the spellings crosse, faceoff, endline and mouthguard against Wiktionary, https://en.wiktionary.org/. Every meaning is in our own words. No league, team, tournament, player or brand is named, and team sizes, field sizes and clock lengths that change with the level of play are left out. Licence: own work

How it works

This printable lacrosse word search starts on Cradle, Crease, Attack, Midfield and Goalie beside two parts of the stick, Shaft and Pocket. Every word has a one-line meaning.

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Six lists, from the crease to the penalty box

Start from a list has The Field (Wing, Alley, Midline), Players and Positions (Middie, Fogo, Defenseman), Stick and Gear (Pocket, Scoop, Sidewall), Skills and Plays (Clear, Ride, Slide), The Game, and Fouls and Penalties (Offside, Slashing, Warding off). The women's game brings Draw, Goal circle and Shooting space. The indoor game brings Boards, Runner and Creaseman.

An easy list and a hard one

For an elementary lacrosse word search printable, pick Easy Lacrosse Words: 41 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Stick, Ball, Pass, Catch and Goal. Hard Lacrosse Words has 17 long ones, Intercrosse, Baggataway and Goaltender among them.

Tick Show clues, not words under More options: "What the goalie makes by stopping a shot." then stands for Save.
The grid drops spaces and hyphens: look for GROUNDBALL, POKECHECK, MANTOMAN and CROSSCHECK.

Questions and answers

What does crosse mean in lacrosse?

A crosse is the lacrosse stick. The word is French for stick: French missionaries who watched the game in the 1630s wrote of la crosse, and the sport took its name from it. Rule books still say crosse; players say stick.

What is cradling in lacrosse?

Cradling is rocking the stick back and forth with the wrists and arms so the ball stays in the pocket while a player runs. It also makes the ball harder for a defender to check loose.

What is the difference between a faceoff and a draw?

A faceoff starts the men's game: two players crouch with the ball on the ground between their stick heads. A draw starts the women's game: two standing players press the ball between their sticks at waist height, then lift.

What is the crease in lacrosse?

The crease is the circle marked around each goal. In the men's game attackers may not step into it, and the goalie cannot be checked while standing inside it.

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The Field 20

The Field, continued

Players and Positions 21

Stick and Gear 30

Skills and Plays 27

The Game 27

Fouls and Penalties 24

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