- The zookeeper's been teaching the gorillas to do archery and do push-ups for nearly a year. - Are "practice archery", "do press-ups" and "do archery", "do push-ups" interchangeable in this context? Thanks so much! NHHL
Practice archery can be replaced by do archery. Push-ups are altogether different: they are the exercises you often see soldiers doing during boot camp.. I don't know what a press up is.
A press-up is what our British friends call a "push-up." I've never heard my archery aficionado friends say "do archery." Archery is a rather well defined sport and I doubt that the gorillas are observing the niceties, or, for that matter hitting a target. I'm probably nit-picking, but I'd say teaching the gorillas to "use bows and arrows."