Trades jabs

The answer

SPARS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARS answer page.

Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SPARS

Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARS, most used first.

• Ship poles - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Practices boxing - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Boxes - used 21 times, most recently in 2007
• Practices for a bout - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Shadowboxes - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Bandies words - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Prepares for a fight - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Prepares for a bout - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Masts - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Coast Guard women - used 7 times, most recently in 1988
• Practices in the ring - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Wrangles - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Practices punching - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Rigging supports - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Trains in a ring - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Trains in the ring - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Trades - SWAPS, used 51 times
• Jabs - POKES, used 47 times
• Some jabs - LEFTS, used 17 times
• Jabs with a finger - POKES, used 11 times
• Jack-__-trades - OFALL, used 9 times
• Some boxing jabs - LEFTS, used 6 times

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