So then you need another Mike Maxwell contribution-- The universal virtual device type. This allows you to have one device report as a different device class. So you can have a contact sensor report as a motion sensor, etc. and acceleration is one of the options.
That way you can make any of your other sensors look like a motion sensor and use them with the zone manager.
It’s a little bit complicated because you actually have to use another smart app to act as a man in the middle, but most people just use smart lighting. So acceleration is detected, it turns on the Udth virtual device which then acts as a motion sensor and the Udth motion sensor gets picked up by zone manager.
@Mike_Maxwell might have another suggestion, but that would be my next thought. 
And I agree all of this would be way simpler if the official features allowed you to include zones of multiple sensor types. But since they don’t, the community is usually able to come up with a way to accomplish desirable use cases, it’s just sometimes it takes a few steps.