Practice archery

[NHHL]

- 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

 

[srta chicken]

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.

 

[sdgraham]

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."