English Grammar and Exercises for ESL learners.

PLAY - GO - DO

SPORTS and LEISURE ACTIVITIES

When speaking about sports and leisure activities,
the verbs play, go and do are used as shown in the table below.

Verb Explanation Sport/Activity

Sports with teams,
rules and competitions
or tournaments.

Two people can Badminton

play a game of Basketball
tennis. Football
PLAY Golf
You need a Rugby
team to play Tennis ,
football. etc

Dad's gone to
play golf.

The name of the

activity is the gerund
form of the verb (-ing).

To camp go
camping Camping
We often go Dancing
camping in theHiking
GO Horse-riding
summer.
Sailing
Swimming
To swim go
etc.
swimming
Many children
like to go
swimming.

DO All other recreational Aerobics

activities.

All classes do
gymnastics at
school.
Athletics
Gymnastics
Sophie does
Judo
yoga with a
Karate
group of friends.
Yoga
etc.
No wonder he's
fit. He does
gymnastics
every day.