| SCRUMHALF | Playing position in rugby (5,4) |
| GOALKEEPER | Playing position in football (10) |
| PROP | Playing position numbered 8 or 10 in rugby league (4) |
| LOCK | Key position in rugby? (4) |
| FLYHALF | Position in rugby for TSE? (3,4) |
| ONSIDE | In a legal playing position |
| SEAT | Playing position* |
| WIDE | Gridiron playing position, -receiver (4) |
| DESPITE | Notwithstanding its deep playing position (7) |
| INCONSIDERATE | Careless within the box, flanking at a legal playing position |
| NETBALL | Seven-a-side team game with playing positions abbreviated to GK, GD, WD, C, WA, GA and GS (7) |
| HARLEMGLOBETROTTERS | The playing positions on this mixed gender basketball team's roster include "showman" |
| WALLABIES | Aussie rugby team's party at one in rugby-playing country |
| LOOSEHEAD | In rugby, the prop on the hooker's left in the front row of a scrum (9) |
| GRANDSLAM | In rugby union, the feat of winning all games in the Six Nations Championships (5,4) |
| RUDDYDUCK | An occasional dabbler in rugby union, daddy regularly gets zero in cricket (5,4) |
| ADULTERER | One playing away in Rugby Union alerted for trouble (9) |
| DROPKICKS | Method of restarting play and scoring points in rugby union and rugby league (4-5) |
| TIGHTHEAD | Prop forward in Rugby (5,4) |
| SALESTALK | Pitch in Rugby Union town to go after game |
