to go
- verb
- /ɡoʊ/
- If you go there by yourself, you're going to be like, what am I doing here?
- go back
- go home
- go there
There is no way I can go, and I didn't.
- There is no way I can go, and I didn't.
- And again, it's just go, just go show up.
- What if, and now let's just go in head first.
- So OK, I'm going to go dive in.
- So I couldn't go in as a ram Raider.
- You know, I would go, I would go out.
Examples
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I think we'd better go and have a look at it.
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Hey Link, do you want to go to the park?
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OK, now I have to go to my lunch.
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Do you want to go back or not? - No!
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Somebody at work asked, 'Are you going to go for a decent job then?'
Academic text (2015) -
Hey Link, do you want to go to the park this weekend?
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After breakfast, I will go to the post office to mail the letters.
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If we don't leave soon, we're going to go to the concert late.
Synonyms
Change position or place
To go from one place to another, often for work or pleasure
Leave a place to do a task, for example to help people
To leave a place or person and go somewhere else
Go toward a place or destination
To leave a place quickly, often to travel somewhere else
To go to another place for work or pleasure
To move ahead in place, in time, or in progress
To leave a place to start a journey
To leave a place to start a trip
To leave a place and start a journey by car or bus
Go forward or leave a place when someone tells you to
Pass from one point to another during a journey or process
To begin a journey to go to another place
Move from place to place within an area
To travel from one place to another over a long distance
To go along a road or path
To move around a house or area
To begin a journey to a place
To move from one place to another
To go to different places for pleasure or adventure
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do something without real effort or interest because it is expected
- Informal
An idea or hope that is suddenly ignored and can no longer happen
- Informal
To be unable to think clearly because you are very worried or upset
- Informal
Start again from the beginning when a plan or idea fails
- Informal
To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do
To continue until the last possible moment while the result is not known
To try something new in a place or way no one has done before
The most important thing that makes life keep going, like money or love
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To spend time looking at people and things happening around you without taking part
Phrasal Verbs
To leave home to take part in a social activity like eating or watching a film
- Specialized
To start selling shares to the public for the first time on a stock market
Have permission to leave a place where you were kept, usually after being arrested or accused
Compounds
A simple card game for two or more players where they ask for cards to make sets of four
A children's game where one person counts with eyes closed and finds hidden players
- Specialized
Stopping an approach or attempt to try again, for example when a plane pulls up instead of landing
- Jargon
A basketball move where a player passes the ball then runs toward the basket to get the ball back
- Literature
A place people are afraid to enter or are not allowed to enter because it is dangerous
A board game for two players using black and white stones to surround and capture opponent stones
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Go comes from the Old English word gān, which meant 'to go' or 'walk' and is related to German gehen and Dutch gaan. So to go still carries that picture of moving or travelling from one place to another.