| 100% | BADMINTON | 9 | Sport played with a shuttlecock where players hit it back and forth in an attempt to make the other side miss |
| 38% | TUG | 3 | ___ of war, sport played with a rope where players pull and try to yank the other team over the line |
| 36% | HOCKEY | 6 | Sport played with a puck where teams try to put it into the other team's goal |
| 33% | TENPINBOWLING | 13 | Popular sport played with a ball that has three holes and whose history has been traced back to the Egyptians living in 3200 BCE: 3 wds. |
| 31% | VAULT | 5 | Pole ___, sport played with a pole where players use it to help them jump over a high bar |
| 30% | RELAY | 5 | Sport with a baton where a runner races to pass it to the next running player |
| 28% | SKATEBOARDING | 13 | Sport that will make its debut in the 2020 Olympics and involves riding and performing tricks on a narrow board with wheels |
| 27% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,653 regular-season games with the Mariners, Yankees, and Marlins: 2 wds. |
| 27% | RAFAELPALMEIRO | 14 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,831 regular-season games with the Cubs, Rangers, and Orioles: 2 wds. |
| 27% | KENGRIFFEYJR | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,671 regular-season games with the Mariners, Reds, and White Sox: 3 wds., abbr. |
| 26% | BADMINTON | 9 | Sport played with a racket and shuttlecock |
| 26% | SAVAGE | 6 | __ Garden had a 1997 hit with To The Moon and Back |
| 26% | CAR | 3 | It goes back and forth on a street or up and down in an elevator shaft |
| 25% | FIVES | 5 | Sport from England where the ball is hit against a special wall with the player's hand |
| 25% | SAW | 3 | It goes back and forth in the woods |
| 25% | HANDSAW | 7 | It goes back and forth in a workshop |
| 25% | BERRA | 5 | Baseball player with the 2001 book “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!” |
| 24% | TEETER | 6 | Alien runs back and forth to queen, in a wobble |
| 24% | SWAY | 4 | Move back and forth, like a boat in the waves |
| 24% | HEREWITHME | 10 | 2019 hit song by 17-Down featuring Chvrches with the lyrics "You're saying the words that I want you to say / There's a pain in my heart and it won't go away" (3 wds.) |
| 24% | CLIMBING | 8 | Sport ___, sport that will debut in the 2020 Olympics and requires contestants to ascend a steep wall with their hands and feet |
| 24% | GETHERE | 7 | Oleta Adams hit with the lyrics “You can make it in a big balloon / But you better make it soon” |
| 24% | BADMINTON | 9 | Sport played with a shuttlecock |
| 24% | RANDOMORDER | 11 | Ideal deck-shuffling goal ... and a hint to a hidden word, and how it appears, in the four other longest answers |
| 24% | CLAPTON | 7 | Eric ___, English musician who played for the Yardbirds and Cream before having a successful solo career with hits like "Tears in Heaven" |
| 24% | PIERCE | 6 | To make a hole in the skin with a sharp object |
| 23% | DANCEMONKEY | 11 | 2019 hit for Tones and I with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 23% | ICE | 3 | ___ hockey, Winter Olympic sport in which two teams use sticks to shoot a rubber puck and was first played in the 19th century |
| 23% | ACE | 3 | Playing card with an A in the corner |
| 23% | LUGE | 4 | Winter Olympic sport which is also a small one or two person sled that rhymes with "huge" and was first played in the 1870s |