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like or habitually take part in an activity (I don't go in for the social whirl. • Although they very much enjoy sex with the right partner, they are quite undemanding and don't go in for party tricks. • Even when I was single, I never went in for that playing-with-fire kind of dallying - not that I was a prude. • Apparently this show is a departure from the stronger stuff Taki Rua usually goes in for but stick with it I say. • I think modern young couples are still looking for the old fashioned stability and public commitment my generation went in for. • At 17, Olga had the world standing up and applauding, daring and innovative, she at times went in for near suicidal routines. • And at least the singer didn't try to do all that guttural bellowing into the mic stuff that the other bands went in for. • And maybe the assertiveness training and confidence-building exercises we women have been going in for down the years is just as much of a waste of time. • They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances. • He doesn't go in for the trappings of stardom, preferring a quiet family life. • I'm not one to go in for a lot of political correctness, so if the depiction of the Spanish-Californian peasants bothered me even a little bit, it is bound to offend others to a far greater degree. lexico.com); to do or use something often because you enjoy it or like it (I never really went in for sports. ldoceonline.com); to take part in a game or contest (merriam-webster.com); to give support to (syn.: advocate: And I don't go in for those terrible exercises that some theatrical actors swear by. merriam-webster.com); to have or show an interest in or a liking for (merriam-webster.com); to engage in : take part in (merriam-webster.com) |