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Using Verbs with Sports and Activities

We use "play" for ball sports and competitive games played against others, "do" for non-team activities and recreational activities without balls, and "go" for activities that involve traveling somewhere to engage in an activity ending in "-ing". The document provides examples of using each verb correctly when talking about common sports and hobbies like tennis, poker, karate, crossword puzzles, fishing, skiing, and swimming.

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Using Verbs with Sports and Activities

We use "play" for ball sports and competitive games played against others, "do" for non-team activities and recreational activities without balls, and "go" for activities that involve traveling somewhere to engage in an activity ending in "-ing". The document provides examples of using each verb correctly when talking about common sports and hobbies like tennis, poker, karate, crossword puzzles, fishing, skiing, and swimming.

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SOME RULES

We use the verbs play, do and go with sports and activities. Here is the information


you need to know to use them correctly:

play
Play is used with ball sports or competitive games where we play against another
person:

'How often do you play tennis?' - tennis is a ball sport.


'I play poker with my friends on Friday night.' - poker is a competitive game. We play
to win.
'I don't like playing computer games.' - again, computer games are competitive so we
use play.

do
Do is used for a recreational activity or a non-team sport that does not use a ball:

'I heard that you do karate.' - karate is a non-team activity.


'I do crossword puzzles in my free time.' - crossword puzzles are not competitive.

go
Go is used with activities that end -ing. We go somewhere to do something:

'I'm going fishing on Sunday.'


'Are you going skiing this winter?'
'She said she was going swimming.'

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