[General] Is it correct to say "Go Bicycle Riding" ?

[hakuso]

I'm not sure if saying so is correct and common for native English speaker ? Please advise. Thanks.

 

[teechar]

I'm not sure if [STRIKE]saying so[/STRIKE] that is correct and common for native English speakers? Please advise. Thanks.

Hello hakuso, and welcome to the forum.
Yes, there's nothing wrong with "go bicycle riding", but there are other ways of saying it too. Take a look at the ngram.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/gra...ng;,c0;.t1;,go biking;,c0;.t1;,go cycling;,c0

 

[jutfrank]

No native speakers I know would say bicycle riding. They would say bike riding.

Generally, the word bicycle sounds a bit formal/old-fashioned these days.

 

[emsr2d2]

I wouldn't even say "I'm going bike riding". I'd say "I'm going for a bike ride".

 

[jutfrank]

I wouldn't say I'm going bike riding, either.

Plus I probably wouldn't even use go bike riding in any context. To refer to the action as a sporting/leisure activity, I would rather use go biking.

 

[emsr2d2]

To refer to the sporting activity, I'd say "cycling".

 

[jutfrank]

For me, cycling elicits road bikes and biking elicits off-road bikes.

Maybe it's because I'm a keen mountain biker, but I would never use cycling to refer to what I do.

 

[tedmc]

Biking could mean riding on a motorcycle.
Among cyclists, they would probably say "go for a ride".