• Play is generally used with team New words:
sports and those sports that
need a ball or similar object VERB + NOUN
(puck, disc, shuttlecock...). Also,
Drinking coffee
those activities in which two water
tea
people or teams compete
against each other: play football, Eat popcorn
play poker, play chess. junk food
Watch films
• Go is used with activities and TV
sports that end in -ing. The
Going to the cinema
verb go here implies that we go to the gym
somewhere to practice this
sport: go swimming. Play basketball
football
tennis
• Do is used with individual, non- Go swimming
team sports or sports in which running
rock climbing
a ball is not used, like martial
arts, for example: do a Cooking pasta
crossword puzzle, do athletics, food
do karate.
Do sport
exercise