I do skating and horse riding.

Question

I would like to know if these sentences are correct:

I do skating every day.

I do horse riding at weekends.

I am not sure about the uses of "do" with these sustantives. Thank you.

Read the answers below Nila - but - you would be understood with your sentences above. - ian-hill, Nov 2, 2011

Also "I skate every day " and " I ride horses at weekends" - ian-hill, Nov 2, 2011

Answer 1

Hi, Nila.

This sounds more natural:

I go skating every day.

I go horse riding on weekends.

Marianne, Isn't our language strange. You would expect to go horse riding on horse. No wonder other countries have problems with it. - Eddy, Nov 2, 2011

I expected something like this. It is true what I imagined. - nila45, Nov 2, 2011

In British English it would be "at weekends" just to confuse a bit more. - ian-hill, Nov 2, 2011

Answer 2

I go horse riding on weekends.

It's probably just a regional difference, but the expression "I go horse riding" sounds a bit off to me (not necessarily wrong, just odd). I think that I am probably more used to the expression "horseback riding" as in "I go horseback riding on weekends."

It is common to say " horse riding" here have not found any other way to do it but on the horses back. - ray76, Nov 2, 2011

Ray, you are so right! We laugh about that all the time, nevertheless, it is a very common expression here in the US. - MLucie, Nov 2, 2011

Answer 3

Or you can say. I skate every day and go horse riding over the weekend.

Or, in a similar vein, "I ride horses over the weekend." - samdie, Nov 2, 2011

Answer 4

I think you could also say:

I skate every day and go horse riding on weekends.