Play scuba diving vs Do scuba diving

Neither "play scuba diving" nor "do scuba diving" is a proper English phrase. The correct way to express this activity is simply "go scuba diving."

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Last updated: March 19, 2025 • 4681 views

Play scuba diving

This phrase is not correct in English. Scuba diving is an activity, not a game or sport that you play.

Instead of using "play scuba diving," it is more appropriate to say "go scuba diving" to indicate the activity of diving underwater with a breathing apparatus.

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Plays a little tennis, goes scuba-diving in the Caribbean.
Thailand, scuba diving, broken foot.
Already signed up for a scuba diving lesson.
You've been scuba-diving, mountain climbing, - abseiling...
Something happened to me while scuba diving.
I'm dying to go scuba diving.
Saw it on a scuba diving trip.
Scuba diving weights on his mother's neck.
So you can imagine scuba diving here.
She and Keith took up scuba diving.
We were going scuba diving that morning.
Like someone saw her scuba diving in Jamaica.
Rock climbing, paragliding, scuba diving.
There're three basic limitations of scuba diving.
Subject: Alleged discrimination under Spanish regulation against non-Spanish EU Scuba diving instructors
I haven't seen anything so beautiful since our family's scuba diving trip to the island of Koh Tao in southeastern Thailand.
Just don't personally own the scuba-diving equipment to retrieve it.
And believe me, high school yearbooks and scuba diving are not what's important.
There will be boating, scuba-diving, recreation, universities built in the sea.
You said you could go scuba diving in your house.

Alternatives:

go scuba diving
try scuba diving
experience scuba diving
practice scuba diving
enjoy scuba diving

Do scuba diving

This phrase is not idiomatic in English. Scuba diving is an activity that is typically expressed using the verb "go."

Instead of using "do scuba diving," it is more appropriate to say "go scuba diving" to convey the action of participating in the activity of scuba diving.

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Just don't personally own the scuba-diving equipment to retrieve it.
But scuba diving, submersibles and all the work that we're setting about to do here will help rectify that.
Thailand, scuba diving, broken foot.
Plays a little tennis, goes scuba-diving in the Caribbean.
Already signed up for a scuba diving lesson.
You've been scuba-diving, mountain climbing, - abseiling...
Something happened to me while scuba diving.
I'm dying to go scuba diving.
Saw it on a scuba diving trip.
Scuba diving weights on his mother's neck.
So you can imagine scuba diving here.
She and Keith took up scuba diving.
We were going scuba diving that morning.
Like someone saw her scuba diving in Jamaica.
Rock climbing, paragliding, scuba diving.
There're three basic limitations of scuba diving.
Subject: Alleged discrimination under Spanish regulation against non-Spanish EU Scuba diving instructors
I haven't seen anything so beautiful since our family's scuba diving trip to the island of Koh Tao in southeastern Thailand.
And believe me, high school yearbooks and scuba diving are not what's important.
There will be boating, scuba-diving, recreation, universities built in the sea.

Alternatives:

go scuba diving
try scuba diving
experience scuba diving
practice scuba diving
enjoy scuba diving

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