Transport for Hangman 🚗

Clues for every word

A one-line clue for every word, easy to hard, each one checked against a source - read them out when you run your own game. These words and clues are separate from the ones in the online game, so they won't give its answers away.

Pram

Wheeled carriage for a newborn baby, who normally lies down facing the person pushing it.

Punt

Flat-bottomed river vessel with a square-cut bow, pushed along with a pole against the river bed.

Tug

Vessel that moves other vessels by pushing or pulling them, for example in crowded harbours or narrow canals.

Blimp

Airship with no internal frame that keeps its shape from the pressure of its gas, usually helium.

Wagon

Heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by animals such as horses, mules or oxen, used for carrying goods.

Liner

Passenger vessel that crosses oceans between continents on a fixed schedule; not a cruise ship.

Trike

Three-wheeled vehicle, often human-powered, that children and older adults favour for its apparent stability.

Wheel

Usually circular part that turns on an axle; with axles, it lets heavy objects be moved easily.

Ticket

A pass that lets you board a means of transport; another kind gets you into a concert or a show.

Canal

Engineered waterway, a bit like an artificial river; where the level changes, locks or lifts raise and lower vessels.

Dinghy

Small open vessel, often towed by a larger one as a tender, moved by oars, a sail or an outboard motor.

Tandem

Pedal cycle for more than one rider at a time, seated one behind the other; on most, the front rider steers.

Schooner

Sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts, the front mast generally shorter than the main one.

Coracle

Small, rounded, light vessel traditionally used in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, like half a walnut shell.

Digger

Heavy construction machine with a boom, bucket and cab on a rotating platform; also called an excavator.

Milk Float

Slow, quiet delivery vehicle, today usually battery-powered, once common in the UK and run by local dairies.

Runway

Long, rectangular strip, often of asphalt or concrete, built for aircraft to take off and land on.

Harbour

Sheltered stretch of water where vessels can be moored; it can be natural, like Sydney's, or artificial.

Roundabout

Circular junction with one-way traffic circling a central island; the modern kind was first standardised in the UK in 1966.

Motorway

High-speed road with no traffic lights; Britain's first, the Preston By-pass, was built in 1958.

Locomotive

Powered rail vehicle that traditionally pulls the carriages from the front; steam ones heat water in a boiler.

Penny Farthing

Early cycle with a large front wheel and a small back one, named after two British coins.

Trimaran

Vessel with a main hull and two smaller outrigger floats, one on each side, joined to it by beams.

Convertible

Passenger vehicle that can be driven with or without its roof; most have a folding top of cloth or other fabric.

Level Crossing

Place where a railway line meets a road or path at the same height, not by a bridge or tunnel.

Maglev

Rail system whose vehicles are held up off the track, not rolling on wheels; one serves Shanghai's Pudong airport.

Autogyro

Rotor aircraft whose rotor is spun by the passing air in flight, not an engine; a separate propeller drives it forward.

Sedan Chair

Windowed cabin for one passenger, with no wheels, carried on wooden rails by porters in front and behind.

Speedometer

Gauge that shows how fast a vehicle is going at that moment; now fitted to every motor vehicle.

Charabanc

Usually open-topped vehicle with rows of bench seats, common in early 1900s Britain for seaside and works outings.