Sports Word Tracing Worksheets

Tracing words is always good practise when you are learning to write, and these sports tracing worksheets make it fun! This one features the word "athletics", and, as always, we've included a picture to colour too.

Baseball is the perfect summer sport - but if you can't be out on the pitch, perhaps you can be tracing the word and colouring in the picture on this early learning worksheet!

This tracing page shows the shooting part of the biathlon event. The other part is cross country skiing. Look out for it in the Winter Olympics!

Can the kids trace the letters of the word "boxing" carefully, before colouring in the picture of a boxer? Boxing is a Summer Olympics sport and also a sport in the Commonwealth Games.

Is it cricket? Yes, it is! Trace the word and colour the picture...  

Cycling can be an exciting competitive sport or a gentle family entertainment! Either way, here's a cycling tracing worksheet for early learners...

We doubt many children will want to trace the word "equestrianism", but it's one of the sports of the Summer Olympics so we've included it anyway in our collection of sports tracing worksheets!

Trace the word football and colour in the picture. A perfect handwriting worksheet for footie fans! We've got the same worksheet for "soccer" too.

Learn to write the word using the tracing lines on this goal word tracing worksheet, starting on the dot! And of course the kids might enjoy colouring in the picture, too.

This tracing worksheet is fun for kids. Trace the word golf and colour in the golfer as he is about to drive off the tee...

Young handball fans can trace the letters of the word and colour in the picture, too.

Encourage young horse-riding fans to practise their handwriting with this worksheet, complete with colouring picture.

Perfect for the Commonwealth Games, in which lawn bowls is one of the 15 sports in 2014, this lawn bowls tracing worksheet will give the kids some handwriting practice and a fun picture to colour in too.  

Ask the children to colour in the picture of a powerlifter, and trace the word beneath.

Row, row, row your boat... or colour in our picture and trace the word on this rowing tracing worksheet!

Trace over the word sailing on this handwriting practise sheet, and colour in the picture too!

As the skater makes her figures on the ice, trace over the word on the paper. This skating tracing page is great for colouring too. Make sure the kids give the skater a fantastic outfit!

Children can carefully trace the letters of the word "soccer" and then colour in this soccer player and ball. We have a football tracing worksheet if you prefer.

Sumo wrestling seems a strange sport to westerners, but of course in Japan it is very popular. Here's a fun tracing worksheet with a colouring picture of a sumo wrestler to colour in when they've traced over the letters in "sumo".

There are days when I wish I could be out surfing like the boy in this colouring picture! Trace the word underneath when you've finished colouring him in...

Here's a tracing worksheet featuring the words "table tennis" and a picture of a table tennis player to colour in, too.

Colour the tennis player and trace the word beneath - perfect for younger children, perhaps during Wimbledon?

Trace over the letters of the words water polo and colour in the picture. You might want to use this word tracing worksheet for a sports topic, or for the Olympics.

Colour the picture and trace the letters on this World Cup tracing worksheet to practise early pencil control skills.