Go/do/play + sport
There are three verbs that collocate with sports and other free time activities: go , do and play , but they are not interchangeable: Go is used with activities and sports that end in -ing . The verb go here implies that we go somewhere to practice this sport: go swimming . 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, do athletics, do karate . 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: play football, play poker, play chess . In this table there is a list of sports and activities that collocate with these verbs: Go Do Play riding aerobics badminton jogging gymnastics table-tennis hitch-hiking taekwondo football fishing judo...