Swimming Word Search Worksheet
Expand your students’ vocabulary as they find Swimming themed words in this FREE Swim Word Search Worksheet for Elementary Students.

Use this free printable word search worksheet to help your students learn some swimming vocabulary as part of their physical education study, before joining a swim team, or just for summer fun.
This worksheet coordinates with our multi subject Swimming Unit Study for elementary students.
Your students may also want to record what they’ve learning about the history and sport of swimming with these Swimming Notebooking Printables in three handwriting levels.
This printable Swimming word search worksheet has 2 pages, one for the student, and one answer page for the parent teacher with the words circled.
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Resources for Learning More about Swimming
Use the resources listed below to extend your study of the sport and history of swimming into a mini unit.
Library List
These books are listed in order of easiest to most difficult.
Froggy Learns to Swim by Jonathan London
Curious George Goes Swimming by H. A. Rey
Swimming (21st Century Skills Innovation Library: Innovation in Sports) by Stephen Timblin
Daniel Learns to Swim by A. C. Swartz
Michael Phelps: Greatest Swimmer of All Time (Breakout Biographies) by Ryan Nagelhout Also on Hoopla
Online Resources
Swimming 101: History of Swimming at the Summer Olympics
Swimming: History, Rules, Famous Swimmers, and Fun Facts for Students
Learn about the components of competitive swimming and the different swimming strokes.
Pool Safety: Educational materials including videos, posters, a printable pledge to sign, and stickers for kids about being safe in a pool.
Swimming Vocabulary Words in this Word Search
Here are the twenty words included in this swimming vocabulary word search:
- athlete
- back crawl (stroke)
- beach
- breast stroke
- buoy
- butterfly (stroke)
- dive
- flippers
- flip turn
- front crawl (stroke)
- Gertrude Ederle
- heats
- kick board
- Marco Polo
- meet
- Olympics
- snorkel
- swim
- swimming pool
- swimsuit
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