Sport and Exercise Actions Vocabulary in English

Exercise vocabulary words and sport words in English with useful pictures and examples. Learn these sport and exercise actions verbs to increase your vocabulary in English. When talking about the latest sports match you watched, you might like to go into detail about what they players were doing, for example being able to say ‘he jumped very high as he kicked the ball.’ This will bring a new level of detail to your conversation. This is also very useful vocabulary to have when you are explaining how a particular sport is played, for example by saying something like ‘in soccer, the players run across the field whilst kicking the ball.’

In this section, you will become confident in being able to refer to sports actions.

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Sport and Exercise Actions Vocabulary

List of Sport and Exercise Actions

Learn more about sports vocabulary in English.

Walk

Don’t try to walk before you can crawl.

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Run

Do not run too fast after gain.

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Stretch

Breathe in through your nose as you stretch up.

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Jump

Can you jump over the river?

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Bounce

Bounce the ball and try and hit it over the net.

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Serve

Serving is arguably the most important aspect of the game, as it is the one shot which has to be in every single rally.

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Lie down

For this exercise, it is best to lie down, or sit with both feet on the floor.

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Sit

Sit on the floor, stretching your legs out in front of you.

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Bend

Lie flat and let your knees bend.

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Kneel

Do not run, stand, kneel or spin in the slide.

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Ride

Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.

Sport and Exercise Actions Vocabulary in English 12Pin

Kick

The kids love to kick a ball against my wall.

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Hop

I tried to hop on my good foot while holding onto Jim.

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Skip

They skip rope and play catch.

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Pass

Pass the ball to the person next to you in the circle and pretend the ball is really heavy by miming.

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Dribble

He was trying to dribble the ball past his opponents.

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Shoot

Keep your distance, or I’ll shoot!

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Catch

The baseball hitter fumbled his attempt to catch it.

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Hit

Look! He is hitting the ball to the goal.

Sport and Exercise Actions Vocabulary in English 20Pin

Throw

He egged her on to throw a stone through the window.

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Sport and Exercise Actions Vocabulary| Picture

For many people sports and exercising is a favoured pass time, and even if it isn’t one of yours, it is a topic that comes in very often during conversations. It is therefore very important that you master the vocabulary associated with this subject so that you can better understand what people are saying, especially in situations such as watching sports on TV.

In this section, you are going to learn a good variety of action words which are related to sports and exercise.

Useful list of sport and exercise verbs with pictures in English.

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Verbs with Pictures for Kids

Learn useful list of verbs commonly used in English with verb pictures for kids.

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Last Updated on February 27, 2023

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