100 Hilarious Sports Riddles & Jokes To Score Big Laughs (2024)
These hilarious sports riddles and jokes with answers are sure to hit a home run with your family and friends. Perfect for any sports fan, they make for a fun and entertaining game night.
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Sports Riddles (What Am I?)
Try out these ‘What Am I?’ riddles all about sports.
1. I’ve played in every game, yet my youth never fades. I run without legs across fields and arcades. What am I?
2. I compete in every race, unseen at the start. I cross every finish line but never depart. What am I?
3. I stand alone, my hands prepared to save, yet every victory, my ground I gave. What am I guarding?
4. I’m heard in arenas, loud or hush, celebrating moments, I make crowds gush. What am I?
5. In my sport, the defense is always in possession of the ball, and the offensive team can score without touching it at all. What sport am I?
6. I can be driven, but I have no wheels. I can also be sliced and yet remain whole. What am I?
7. I am harder to catch the faster you run. What am I?
8. I have 22 legs and 2 wings. What am I?
9. I am served, but not by a waiter. I am an ace, but not a card. What am I?
10. I happen three times in weightlifting, twice in swimming, but only once in tennis. What am I?
11. I am a ring that is a square. What am I?
12. I have a chain but I’m not a prisoner. I have pedals but I’m not a piano. What am I?
13. In my game, winners move backward and losers move forward. What am I?
14. I am what you get if your sheep studies karate. What am I?
15. I’m used in most sports, have four holes and a state shares my name. What am I?
16. I play on a diamond, I play fair, I always get dirty, and then I run home. What am I?
17. I’m a ball that rolls but can’t bounce or be thrown. What am I?
18. In sports, I am better when I am broken. What am I?
19. I swing around on sticks and use them to do my tricks, a white powder helps me to grip and people cheer when I flip. What am I?
20. You swim, bike, and run on an adventure with me. It’s endurance you need when you do all three. What am I?
21. I’m a global event featuring athletes near and far. I have medals and torches and can make you a star. What am I?
22. I dive and I race in a lane this is true. The butterfly is one of the things that I do. What am I?
23. I’m a winter sport played with a stick not a ball. You need to wear special pads as you may hit a wall. What am I?
24. I used to be necessary to catch food for dinner. Now if you hit the middle you are the winner. What am I?
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Baseball Jokes & Riddles
25. What did the baseball glove say to the ball?
Answer: Catch you later!
26. How do you know that a vampire loves baseball?
Answer: Because he turns into a bat every night.
27. What animal is the best at baseball?
Answer: A bat.
28. Why is the baseball field hot after a game?
Answer: All the fans left.
29. Why did the baseball coach hire a piano player?
Answer: Because he heard he had perfect pitch!
30. Where do coal diggers play baseball?
Answer: In the miner leagues
31. Why was the baseball player’s food always dirty?
Answer: He always stepped on the plate.
32. Why was the spider on the baseball team?
Answer: He was good at catching flies.
33. Why was the baker hired to coach the baseball team?
Answer: He knew how to handle batter.
34. Where do great dragon baseball players go?
Answer: To the Hall of Flame
35. Why don’t chickens play baseball?
Answer: Because they hit fowl balls. (See more chicken jokes)
36. What has 18 legs and catches flies?
Answer: A baseball team.
37. How do baseball players stay cool?
Answer: They sit by the fans.
38. Why did the baseball player become a jeweler?
Answer: He was great around diamonds.
39. What’s a home run hitter’s favorite type of music?
Answer: Swing!
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Golf Jokes & Riddles
40. Why did the golfer change his socks?
Answer: He had a hole-in-one.
41. What area of the fairway is a dog’s favorite?
Answer: The ruff.
42. Why did the golfer not have his metal clubs in his bag?
Answer: He was iron deficient.
43. Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants?
Answer: In case he got a hole-in-one.
44. What do you call an angry golfer?
Answer: Teed off!
45. What car does a golfer’s assistant drive?
Answer: A Caddy-lac
46. What movie about golf took place in a galaxy far, far away?
Answer: Par Wars
47. What do you get when you cross a body of water with golf?
Answer: The Golf of Mexico.
48. What is a golfer’s favorite sandwich?
Answer: Peanut putter and jelly
49. Where are you most likely to find a bear on a golf course?
Answer: In the cub house.
50. What do you call a golf shot that ends up in outer space?
Answer: A black hole in one.
51. Which Star Wars character was good at sinking short shots?
Answer: Jabba the Putt
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52. How long did the golfer promise to stay married?
Answer: Till death do us par.
Basketball Riddles & Jokes
53. Why did the basketball player bring his suitcase to the game?
Answer: Because he traveled a lot.
54. Why do basketball players love milk and cookies?
Answer: Because they can dunk them.
55. Why did the fish refuse to play basketball?
Answer: He was afraid of the net.
56. What is a good restaurant for a basketball team?
Answer: Dunkin Donuts.
57. Why can’t you play basketball with pigs?
Answer: They always hog the ball.
58. What do you call a basketball game with no ball?
Answer: A basket game!
59. What did the hoop say to the basketball?
Answer: May all your swishes comes true!
60. Why are frogs so good at basketball?
Answer: They always make the jump shots.
61. Why are spiders great at basketball?
Answer: Because they are eight-footers.
62. Where do point guards take their dates to dance?
Answer: Basket Balls
63. Why are ghosts best at defense in basketball?
Answer: They are great at getting through screens.
64. Why couldn’t the basketball player listen to music?
Answer: Because he broke the record.
65. What do you call an unbelievable story about a basketball player?
Answer: A tall tale.
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Soccer Jokes & Riddles
66. What is a ghost’s favorite soccer position?
Answer: Ghoul keeper
67. Why are soccer players good at math?
Answer: They know how to use their heads.
68. Why can’t anyone play soccer in a jungle?
Answer: There are too many cheetahs.
69. Why can’t Cinderella play soccer?
Answer: Because she always runs away from the ball.
70. What kind of tea do soccer players drink?
Answer: Penal-tea
71. What lights up a soccer stadium?
Answer: A soccer match
72. Why did the soccer ball quit the team?
Answer: It was tired of being kicked around.
73. Why didn’t the dog want to play soccer?
Answer: He was a boxer. (See animal riddles for more!)
74. What do soccer referees send during the holidays?
Answer: Yellow cards
75. Why did the soccer team visit the Bermuda Triangle?
Answer: To find their missing soccer ball.
76. Why are scrambled eggs like a losing soccer team?
Answer: Because they’ve both been beaten.
77. What runs around a soccer field but never moves?
Answer: A fence.
78. Why don’t soccer fans wear eyeglasses?
Answer: It’s a contact sport.
79. What do you call a Greek philosopher who played soccer?
Answer: Soccerates
Football Riddles & Jokes
80. What two football teams played in the Pirate Super Bowl?
Answer: The Seahawks and the Buccanneers
81. What did the football coach say to the broken vending machine?
Answer: I want my quarter back!
82. What has one foot but no legs?
Answer: A football!
83. Which football player wears the biggest helmet?
Answer: The one with the biggest head.
84. How did the octopus win the football game?
Answer: With Ten Tackles
85. How do chickens encourage their football teams?
Answer: They egg them on.
86. Where do football players go when they need a new uniform?
Answer: New Jersey
87. How do football players deal with their problems?
Answer: They tackle them head-on.
88. Why do coaches like punters?
Answer: Because they always put their best foot forward.
89. Where do hungry football players play?
Answer: In the Souper Bowl.
90. What do you call a boat full of polite football players?
Answer: A good sportsman-ship.
91. Which insect doesn’t play football well?
Answer: A fumble-bee
92. Why did the kicker decide to marry his high school sweetheart?
Answer: She was a fair catch.
93. What do football players wear on Halloween?
Answer: Face masks.
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More Sports Riddles
Answer these sports riddles about volleyball, tennis, and more!
94. What’s an insect’s favorite sport?
Answer: Cricket
95. What is a cheerleader’s favorite food?
Answer: Cheerios!
96. What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t work?
Answer: A stick.
97. What is the hardest part about skydiving?
Answer: The ground.
98. Why is tennis such a loud sport?
Answer: The players raise a racquet.
99. Why did the ballerina quit?
Answer: It was tu-tu hard!
100. What time does a tennis player get up?
Answer: Ten-ish
101. What do vampires play in their free time?
Answer: Bat-minton
102. Why do waiters hate tennis?
Answer: Because everything they serve gets returned.
103. Why do lawyers love tennis?
Answer: Because it’s always in the court.
104. Why are porcupines so good at volleyball?
Answer: Because they have really sharp spikes!
105. What is a horse’s favorite sport?
Answer: Stable tennis!
106. What is a sheep’s favorite game?
Answer: Baa-dminton
107. What sport can also be eaten?
Answer: Squash
108. What do boxers and fishermen have in common?
Answer: They both throw hooks.
109. What is a runner’s favorite subject in school?
Answer: Jog-raphy
110. What kind of exercises are best for a swimmer?
Answer: Pool-ups
111. Why shouldn’t you tell a joke while ice skating?
Answer: Because the ice might crack up.
112. What kind of skates wear out quickly?
Answer: Cheapskates
113. What detergent do rowers use?
Answer: Tide
114. Why was the bodybuilder evicted?
Answer: He was squatting.
115. How did the rabbit become a wrestling champion?
Answer: He had a lot of hare pins! (See more rabbit jokes)
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