Water sports provide great opportunities for fun, fitness, and testing your knowledge. Riddles engage the mind and get us thinking from new perspectives. Here are 53 riddles about popular water sports along with their answers to entertain, challenge, and teach you a thing or two!
Swimming Riddles
Let’s start with riddles about one of the most popular water sports – swimming!
Riddle 1
What starts with E, ends with E, and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
Riddle 2
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 3
The more you take away, the larger I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle 4
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 5
David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David.
Riddle 6
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 7
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 8
What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle 9
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 10
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 11
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 12
People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
Surfing Riddles
Now let’s switch gears to the exciting sport of surfing with these mind-bending riddles!
Riddle 13
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
Riddle 14
What gets wet when drying?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 15
I’m tall when I’m young, short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle 16
What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
Riddle 17
What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 18
I have branches but no fruit, trunk but no bark, and leaves but no buds. What am I?
Answer: A library.
Riddle 19
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
Riddle 20
What has to be broken before it can be used?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle 21
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 22
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
Riddle 23
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
Wakeboarding Riddles
How are your riddle-solving skills holding up? Here are some brain-busters about the high-octane sport of wakeboarding:
Riddle 24
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
Riddle 25
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
Riddle 26
What goes up and down but does not move?
Answer: Stairs.
Riddle 27
Everyone has me but nobody can lose me. What am I?
Answer: A shadow.
Riddle 28
What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
Riddle 29
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 30
What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
Riddle 31
What goes through towns and hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
Riddle 32
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
Kayaking Riddles
Kayaking is all about navigating the waters. Try navigating these mind-bending riddles!
Riddle 33
What starts with “e” ends with “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
Riddle 34
I have keys but no locks and space but no rooms. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
Riddle 35
What goes up when rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle 36
What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle 37
I am not alive but I grow, I don’t have lungs but I need air, I don’t have a mouth but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
Riddle 38
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.
Riddle 39
People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
Riddle 40
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Windsurfing Riddles
Get ready to have your mind blown away by these windsurfing riddles!
Riddle 41
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle 42
What can travel around the whole way without moving?
Answer: A postage stamp.
Riddle 43
What comes once a minute, twice a moment and never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
Riddle 44
What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold.
Riddle 45
I am an odd number. Take away my letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven.
Riddle 46
I have cities but no houses, forests and no trees, water and no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 47
What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.
Riddle 48
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Canoeing Riddles
Here come canoe-full of riddles to liven up your grey matter!
Riddle 49
What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
Riddle 50
What has 4 fingers and 1 thumb, but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove.
Riddle 51
What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
Riddle 52
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 53
I have keys but no locks and space but no rooms. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
Conclusion
How many of these water sports riddles could you solve? Riddles stimulate our brains, improve critical thinking, and add a splash of fun! Whether you enjoy swimming, surfing, paddling or wind-powered sports on the water, these brain-teasers can enhance your aquatic adventures. Stay safe out there, and keep your mind engaged along with your body!
