Crossword-Solution: SPRY 4 letters, 189 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Spry	superl.	Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SPRY	anagram	PYRS

We have 189 clues for the answer “SPRY”

Clue	Answers
"The ___ Arms of the Wind" (Dickinson poem)	1 answer
Able to do a cartwheel, perhaps	1 answer
Able to move nicely	1 answer
Active for one's age	1 answer
Active for your age	1 answer
Active in the retirement community?	1 answer
Agile despite age	1 answer
Agile for a golden-ager	1 answer
Agile for one's age	1 answer
Agile, for a senior	1 answer
Chipper for one's age	1 answer
Complimentary adjective for a grandpa	1 answer
Energetic for one's age	1 answer
Far from creaky	1 answer
Far from lethargic	1 answer
Full of life for one's age	1 answer
Getting around easily	1 answer
Getting around well	1 answer
Hardly doddering	1 answer
Hardly doddery	1 answer
Hardly heavy-footed	1 answer
Light-footed for one's age	1 answer
Like "Jack-be-nimble"	1 answer
Like Elly May's granny	1 answer
Like Granny Daisy Moses	1 answer
Like Granny on "The Beverly Hillbillies"	1 answer
Like Johanna Quaas, the oldest active competitive gymnast	1 answer
Like Olga Korbut	1 answer
Like Senior Olympics competitors	1 answer
Like a little old lady in tennis shoes	1 answer
Like a stereotypical little old lady in tennis shoes?	1 answer
Like an 80-year-old jogger	1 answer
Like an agile senior	1 answer
Like an octogenarian yoga practitioner	1 answer
Like many National Senior Games competitors	1 answer
Like many Senior Olympics participants	1 answer
Like senior Pilates practitioners	1 answer
Like senior-center yoga class participants	1 answer
Like someone still gardening at 93	1 answer
Like someone still polkaing at 90	1 answer
Limber, though older	1 answer
Lissome for one's age	1 answer
Lively and active	1 answer
Lively for one's age	1 answer
Lively, especially for one's age	1 answer
Lively, nimble	1 answer
Lively, perhaps for one's age	1 answer
Moving around very nicely, thank you	1 answer
Moving easily	1 answer
Moving quickly and energetically	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SPRY (5)

Being out in a boat on the river Lea, especially on Saturday afternoons, soon makes you smart at handling a craft, and spry at escaping being run down by roughs or swamped by barges; and it also affords plenty of opportunity for acquiring the most prompt and graceful method of lying down flat at the bottom of the boat so as to avoid being chucked out into the river by passing tow-lines.

Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1995

She's one of them spry, light-footed little women; always was, an' light-hearted, too,” answered Mrs.

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 2008

Now we’re in warm latitoods, your glass will rise steady, and you’ll be as right and spry as any one of us, before we fetch the Golden Gates.” “I’m thinking about the children,” said Lestrange, seeming not to hear the captain’s words.

The Blue Lagoon H. de Vere Stacpoole 1995

The monkeys are spry enough to keep out of the way of the fierce Kalidahs, which attack all other animals and often fight among themselves." "Did they try to fight you when you saw 'em?" asked Trot, getting very much excited.

The Magic of Oz L. Frank Baum 1996

Some of the boys, more spry than others, would move away to a distance, and then as though all unconsciously, allow their queue to hang down the back in its natural position, depending upon their fleetness or their agility in getting out of the way or bringing the queue around in front.

The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1996

Quotes with SPRY (3)

Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler.

Jon Paul Fiorentino Indexical Elegies

How Did You Die? Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it? You are beaten to earth? Well, well what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there - tha…

Edmund Vance Cooke

Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

Louis L'Amour

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 695 times in crossword archives (1968–2025).