Talk about your free time activity
Here you will learn expressions, phrases and vocabulary used in the free time activity that will enrich your English and make you sound like a native speaker.
1. Example questions about free time activity
You can use these questions:
- Do you ever play soccer?
- Do you like going swimming?
- Do you like playing chess with high school friends?
- Do you like watching Netflix Shows?
- Do you usually go running in the morning?
- Do you usually go to the beach on the weekends?
- How about going to the gym after classes?
- How do feel after doing that activity?
- How much time do you spend a day on leisure activities?
- What board games do you want to play?
- What do you do in your free time?
- What do you usually do in your free time?
- What do you want to do after school?
- What hobbies do you have?
- What is the activity?
- What you do?
- What’s your favorite sport?
- Where you do it?
- Why you like it?
2. List of the most common vocabulary for sports and free time activity
Below given with meaning and examples which you can use. This is a list of the most popular sports in English:
- Athletics
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bowling
- Car racing
- Cycling
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Handball
- Hockey
- Horse racing
- Jogging
- Motorcycle racing
- Polo
- Rugby
- Scuba diving
- Skiing
- Skin diving
- Snowboarding
- Soccer
- Softball
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Volleyball
Here is a list of the most popular leisure activities in English:
- Blogging
- Check Facebook
- Check the news
- Cook
- Exercise
- Go out for a coffee
- Go out with your children
- Go shopping
- Go to concerts
- Go to the gym
- Go to the movies
- Go to the park
- Hang out
- Have dinner at a restaurant
- Listen to music
- Play a sport
- Play an instrument
- Play video games
- Play with your children
- Read
- Spend time with family
- Study
- Surf the web
- Watch movies
- Watch music videos
- Watch Soap Operas
- Watch TV
- Watch Youtube videos
- Work out
3. Structures to talk about free time activity
When we talk about sports and leisure time activities, we usually talk about what we like and sometimes we say a thing or two about the ones we don’t like.
Structures affirmative:
- I like playing video games.
- I like to play sports.
- I love playing basketball.
- I love to do exercises.
- I enjoy reading books.
- I enjoy my work.
- I prefer reading magazines.
- I prefer to work on my terms.
Structures negative:
- I dislike going to the gym.
- I dislike jogging early in the morning.
- I hate working out.
- I hate playing soccer.
- I don't like to play sports.
- I don't like boxing.
4. Example sentences to talk about free time activity
Pick a leisure time activity that you usually do. You can talk about one of the following topics or the one you really do:
- I actively participate in social works.
- I bake cookies and cakes
- I blow bubbles
- I climb mountains
- I collect stamps
- I do experiments
- I do magic tricks
- I do rope courses
- I do some freelancing jobs.
- I feed the birds
- I get a massage
- I get my nails done
- I go camping
- I go fishing
- I go for a walk
- I go hiking
- I Go out for walking, running or for other forms of exercise.
- I go rafting
- I go scuba diving
- I go shopping
- I go skateboarding
- I go skiing
- I go swimming
- I go tenpin bowling
- I go to a café
- I go to a museum
- I go to an amusement park
- I go to the beach
- I go to the gym
- I go to the library
- I go to the movies / I go to the cinema
- I go to the nearby park or open space for fresh air.
- I go to the park
- I go to the zoo
- I have a few hours on my bicycle at the weekend.
- I have a hobby and I spend time on that.
- I have a water fight with friends
- I invent things
- I juggle
- I jump in puddles
- I knit
- I learn something like singing, playing musical instruments, cooking, dancing, sports, art etc.
- I look at the stars
- I make a snowman
- I plant trees
- I play hopscotch
- I play indoor games like chess, computer games etc.
- I play on a swing
- I play rock, paper, scissors
- I play with my dog
- I read books.
- I relax in a bathtub
- I ride a horse
- I ride my bike
- I sing karaoke
- I spend time with my family members, help them completing their household chores etc.
- I Take care of the garden I have.
- I take my parents or children outside for walking.
- I tell jokes
- I visit my friends and spend time with them.
- I visit my relatives.
- I watch TV, movies or listen to music.
- I wear costumes
- I whistle
- I write for my blogs and surf the internet.
- I'm also getting out on our feet and doing more walking.
- I'm doing some walking.
- My spare time has been very short.
References