Grammar: verbs used to talk about sports

Sport Verbs

 

Verbs used for sports

In English we use different verbs depending on the sports we are talking about.

We use three different verbs: play, go and do.

cycling
play football
We use "play" normally for organized team sports that commonly use a ball in their games.
golf
play golf
play rugby
rugby
PLAY
CYCLING
go cycling
jogging
go jogging
GO

We use "go" for sports that end in -ing

Exceptions: boxing, weight lifting

DO
We use "do" for martial arts (karate, judo) , fight sports (boxing, wrestling) and others such as yoga and weight lifting.
do karate
martial arts
weightlifting
do weight lifting
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