| 100% | SPEEDBOAT | 9 | Fast craft that travels on water and sets records |
| 43% | SECRETARIAT | 11 | Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Triple Crown on June 9, 1973, and who set fastest time records in all three races that remain unbroken (2 wds.) |
| 42% | BOAT | 4 | A ship that travels on water |
| 36% | JETSKI | 6 | Craft that's like a motorcycle/small boat on water |
| 33% | SAILING | 7 | Traveling on water |
| 33% | SAIL | 4 | Travel on water |
| 33% | PEDESTRIANS | 11 | Those traveling on foot |
| 31% | CAMPBELL | 8 | Donald —, world land and water speed record holder killed on Coniston Water in 1967 |
| 31% | TRAIN | 5 | Vehicle that travels on rails |
| 31% | SLOTH | 5 | Mammal that's faster in water than on land (which isn't saying much) |
| 31% | SLED | 4 | Winter vehicle that travels on runners |
| 31% | SLED | 4 | Wheelless vehicle that travels on snow |
| 31% | SAIL | 4 | Lisa managed to travel on water |
| 30% | SMALL | 5 | "It's a ___ World" (song that plays over and over on a Disneyland water ride) |
| 30% | MAN | 3 | "The Old ___ and the Sea," 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway that is set on an island |
| 30% | LIONELTRAINS | 12 | Classic toys that travel on tracks: 2 wds. |
| 29% | AMPHIBIAN | 9 | Animal that can live on land and in water |
| 29% | MONORAIL | 8 | Train that travels on a single track up high |
| 29% | SPINART | 7 | Craft that may utilize old phonograph records |
| 29% | SEAPLANE | 8 | Craft that can land in the water |
| 28% | GOODNEWS | 8 | Happy, positive update that travels fast |
| 28% | TACHYON | 7 | Particle that travels faster than light |
| 28% | RAN | 3 | Traveled fast on foot |
| 28% | HIGHFIDELITY | 12 | Film based on a Nick Hornby novel set in a record shop starring John Cusack and Joan Cusack (2 wds.) |
| 28% | ARK | 3 | Craft that supposedly sailed for 40 days and nights |
| 28% | COMMUTERRAIL | 12 | Bird that travels to and from work? |
| 28% | TACHYON | 7 | Hypothetical particle that travels faster than light |
| 28% | STRIDERS | 8 | Insects that walk on water |
| 28% | ALGA | 4 | Weed that floats on water |
| 28% | OIL | 3 | Liquid that floats on water |