Top 10 Phrasal Verbs for Sports and Exercise in English

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about 10 phrasal verbs for sports and

exercise so let’s go go long the first

word is go long go long we use this word

when we’re playing catch or when we’re

throwing a ball so go long means we

combine the word go with the word long

meaning run far away from me run a long

distance away from me so go is travel

move and long is a long distance away so

go long will usually shout this before

we pass a football for example and

before we throw a ball go long means I

want to throw this a long distance so

please run far far away and I will throw

the ball to you it’s a nice one in a

sentence I’m gonna pass this next one to

you so go long try out for the next

phrasal verb is try out for try out for

we use try out for to mean audition like

in sports but to audition for a team to

apply to be a member of a team when you

do that you usually have to show your

sports your your sports sporting

experience or you have to show your

athletic ability so to try out for is

like a test to join a team like I want

to try out for the volleyball team next

year or she says she’s going to try out

for golf’s next year or have you thought

about trying out for the swim team for

example so to try out for a team to try

out for a sport this is how we can use

try out for work up the next phrasal

verb is work up as in work up a sweat

work up a sweat we use work up a sweat

to mean cause your body to sweat because

of exercise so by doing something active

like doing sports or running for example

anything active with your body we cause

our bodies to sweat and we use the

expression work

a sweat to express that we use work

because we are working and we are moving

our bodies we’re active we are working

our bodies our bodies are working

they’re moving they’re functioning so we

use work up a sweat our bodies are

working and the temperature may be

increases so our body starts to sweat to

try to cool us down so we say work up a

sweat to describe this in some example

sentences mmm I try to work up a sweat

at least twice a week or how often do

you work up a sweat or it feels really

good to work up a good sweat now and

then yeah root for the next expression

is root for root for we use root for at

sporting events so root for means

support a team so to root for like I’m

going to root for the football team or

I’m going to root for my country’s team

or I’m going to root for my city’s team

root for means support so I like to root

for my college team every year or I like

to root for my college football team

every year that’s true or which team do

you want to root for this weekend

work off the next phrasal verb is work

off work off so we talked about work up

like work up a sweat but here the word

is work off we usually use this to talk

about calories so I want to work off the

Cheesecake I ate for a dessert last

night or I want to work off the burrito

I had for lunch today work off means a

food you ate and we use the word work

off to mean work our bodies as in work

through exercise and work off so we want

to take off from our bodies the calories

we added to it by eating so example

sentences would be yeah I want to work

off the Cheesecake I ate last night I

want to work off all the pizza that I

ate last weekend or do you want to come

with me I’m gonna go work off all these

ice creams I’ve been eating lately for

example so work off means to exercise

with the intention of taking off or

taking away calories from food so if

you’re dieting or if you’re trying to

become Health

or you just want to exercise away is

some extra calories you can use the

expression work off to work off a food

to work off some calories okay

cheer on cheer for the next expression

or maybe a pair of expressions is cheer

on or cheer for so I talked about the

word root for and cheer on and cheer for

are very similar we use them in pretty

much the same way so we used cheer on

usually before a team name like I’m

going to cheer on my high school team or

I’m going to cheer on my son or

daughters team this weekend we can also

use cheer for I’m going to cheer for my

high school team I’m going to cheer for

my college team because we’re using the

word cheer it sounds like we’re going to

use our voice or use our bodies to

support that team you can maybe see a

great example of this among cheer

leaders so you see cheerleaders a lot in

movies especially from the USA they’re

men and women actually but they wear a

uniform and their role their purpose is

to help the audience cheer for that team

to cheer for the the team that they are

connected to so a cheer leader is a

person who leads cheering at a sporting

event so to cheer for someone or to

cheer on someone a team we can use cheer

on and cheer for to talk about

supporting with your voice or with some

kind of dance for example so cheer on

and cheer for are really fun things that

you can talk used to talk about

supporting your favorite teams knockout

the next expression is knock out knock

out or you might see ko as well knock

out means - usually through a punch or

through some kind of physical action to

cause someone to lose consciousness so

it doesn’t mean to kill someone it

doesn’t mean someone dies for example it

means to cause someone to become

unconscious or unconscious it’s like

going to sleep but it’s kind of it’s

dangerous like because of a head injury

usually a person goes unconscious or

they they fall asleep it appears they

fall asleep but you see this in boxing

for example a knockout a ko is someone

yeah becomes maybe unconscious so they

fall down for example and they don’t get

back up that’s a KO to knock out your

opponent so we we see this a lot in

boxing perhaps in other sports

occasionally but I think primarily it’s

used in boxing so to knock out your

opponent or like he’s going to try to

knock out his opponent in the last round

or did you see that guy get knocked out

last night you can use knockout outside

of sports but it’s usually used for

fights like I saw a guy get knocked out

outside a bar last night so we can use

this outside of sports but it’s usually

for like fighting situations okay

workout the next phrasal verb is work

out work out this is one that many

people seem to struggle with when they

see it so it does not mean it has no

connection to actually working to work

out means to exercise to exercise we use

this as a set phrase workout it means

exercise that’s it so I want to work out

three times a week or I went to the gym

for a workout last night or do you want

to work out with me this weekend work

out means exercise always warm up the

next expression is warm up warm up so

warm

meaning warm your body so increase your

body’s temperature and up meaning to

increase something again so warm

becoming warm and up temperature like

increasing temperature so before you

begin a some kind of exercise or some

activity it’s common to begin with a

warm-up a short kind of easy exercise to

prepare your body to work out to

exercise so a warmup is often included

in an exercise routine warm-up is the

phrasal verb we use so example sentences

I like to do a five-minute warm-up

before I go jogging

what do you usually do for your warmup

or I think it’s really important to do a

warm-up before you start working out

cooldown alright the last one for today

is cool down cool down is really the

opposite of warm up so we use warm up to

explain raising our body’s temperature

before we do a workout cool down is used

to explain cooling the body’s

temperature after a workout reducing our

energy levels after a workout for

example I think it’s important to take

five minutes to cool down after your

workout or what kind of things do you

recommend for cooling down after your

exercise alright so those are 10 phrasal

verb that you can use when talking about

sports and when talking about exercise I

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