17. Definitions
• Warm up: To prepare for an athletic event
by exercising, stretching, or practicing for
a short time beforehand.
• Train: to do exercises and prepare for a
specific purpose.
18. Play
• Basketball
• Baseball
• Golf
• Tennis
• Soccer/Football
• Chess
• Hockey
• Volleyball
Play is generally used
with team sports and
those sports that need a
ball or similar object
(puck, disc,
shuttlecock...). Also, those
activities in which two
people or teams compete
against each other.
19. Go
• Swimming
• Hiking
• Bowling
• Fishing
• Skiing
• Jogging
• Running
• Cycling
Go is used with activities and
sports that end in -ing. The
verb go here implies that we go
somewhere to practice this
sport.
20. Do
• Karate
• Judo
• Kung fu
• Aerobics
• Ballet
• Yoga
• Gymnastics
Do is used with recreational
activities and with individual,
non-team sports or sports in
which a ball is not used, like
martial arts, for example: do a
crossword puzzle.
21. Some exceptions to the rules:
• You use do with two activities that end in
-ing: do boxing and do body-building,
because they don't imply moving along as
the other activities ending in -ing.
• Golf: if there is an idea of competition, you
use the verb play. However, you can say
go golfing if you do it for pleasure: Tiger
Woods plays golf. We'll go golfing at the
weekend.
22. References
• http://inmadom-myenglishclass.
blogspot.com/2013/01/coll
ocations-do-play-or-go-with-sports.html
• New English file intermediate Clive
Oxenden - Christina Latham-Koenig -
Oxford University Press - 2011