Sports Word Scramble

These anagrams all unscramble into a sport. Some are the obvious four-letter ones you would guess first, and some are the long Olympic disciplines that only reveal themselves once you have committed a few tiles.

Each clue points at a rule, a piece of equipment or a scrap of history rather than describing the sport in general terms, so there is usually a single detail that gives the whole thing away if you spot it.

Difficulty runs on word length, so a sport everybody knows can still sit in the hard tier. The explanations on the answers page carry a fact about each one worth knowing.