Sports deal
The crossword clue "Sports deal" is answered by TRADE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRADE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRADE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TRADE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRADE, most used first.
- Swap - used 152 times, most recently in 2026
- Commerce - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Exchange - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Barter - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Occupation - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Make a swap - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Line of work - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Profession - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Business - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Vocation - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Buy and sell - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of NAFTA - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Craft - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Sports page news - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Wall Street transaction - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Baseball deal - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Baseball transaction - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Give and take - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Plumbing or welding - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Stock market transaction - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Give this for that - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Lifework - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Play the market - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Quid pro quo - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Clientele - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
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.
- Sports venue - ARENA, used 210 times
- Deal maker - AGENT, used 101 times
- Sports spot - ARENA, used 78 times
- Sports stadium - ARENA, used 75 times
- Sports complex - ARENA, used 67 times
- Sports figures - STATS, used 49 times
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