Transportation word search

Everything that moves people and goods, on land, on water and in the air. Next to the everyday car, bus and bicycle you will find working vehicles such as the bulldozer, forklift and garbage truck, travel words like passenger, ticket, runway and station, and a few rarer rides: the gondola, the rickshaw and the hovercraft.

People flew in a hot air balloon more than a century before the airplane. After a test flight carrying a sheep, a duck and a rooster, a balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers took its first human passengers over Paris in 1783. Powered flight came in 1903, when Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; the very first flight lasted 12 seconds.

Vehicles are a reliable favorite with young children, and the theme fits lessons on community helpers (ambulance, fire truck) or on how people traveled long ago and how they travel today.

Play tip: some names have two or three words, but the grid hides them without spaces. HOTAIRBALLOON and STEERINGWHEEL have 13 letters each, which is long enough that they appear only on the expert level. On easy, where no word is longer than eight letters, you will meet the shorter rides like TAXI, TRAM and CANOE.