do ice skating vs go ice skating

"Do ice skating" is not technically incorrect, but it is not commonly used and sounds unnatural. "Go ice skating" is the more common and natural way to refer to this activity.

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Last updated: July 31, 2024

do ice skating

This phrase is not commonly used and sounds unnatural.

This phrase is not commonly used. It is better to use 'go ice skating' instead.

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Or could this have something to do with... ice skating?
Adrianna's getting an ice-skating rink.
One time I took Tina ice skating.
You've got double blade technology from ice skating.
I think that we should all go ice skating.
Charlotte! I did tape the ice-skating for you.
You know, in addition to the ice skating.
You try ice-skating with varicose veins.
We're having a bowl of soup and ice skating.
You said, Torvill and Dean's Barnum routine aside, ice-skating was aesthetically bankrupt.
Ice-skating on the mineral lakes of Kur-ha.
Besides, you-you weren't terribly good at ice skating.
Maybe we could talk Jenna and Luke into ice skating with us.
Horseback riding, ice skating, - roller blading, skiing...
I was going to take him ice skating.
I took ice-skating lessons when I was 6.
You still owe me an ice-Skating snowman.
This is even better than the ice-skating cows, Torino opening ceremonies, 2006.
It was either this or ice skating.
Never pictured you as a Rockefeller ice-skating type, Kara.

Alternatives:

go ice skating
try ice skating
enjoy ice skating
practice ice skating
take up ice skating

go ice skating

This phrase is correct and commonly used to express the activity of ice skating.

This phrase is commonly used to express the activity of ice skating.

Examples:

Let's go ice skating this weekend.
I love to go ice skating in the winter.
We can go ice skating at the local rink.
She wants to go ice skating for her birthday.
He invited me to go ice skating with him.

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I think that we should all go ice skating.
We just want to go ice skating in the park.
We just want to go ice skating in the park.
Maybe this weekend, you and I could go ice skating like we used to.
And maybe if it's cold enough, we can go ice skating on the Auglaize River, and get hot chocolate anywhere but the Lima Bean, because when I was working there I saw a mouse.
Do you want to go ice skating?
No, let's go ice skating.
Remember how we'd go ice skating at Grandma's every week in the winter?
So where are we going next? Let's go ice skating at Rockefeller Center.
You want to go ice skating with me?

Alternatives:

do some ice skating
try ice skating
enjoy ice skating
practice ice skating
take up ice skating

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