go

To move or travel to a place or through an area.

• I go to school by bus.
• She went across the bridge.
• Have you ever gone to Italy?

How to use it: go to + place (We go to the beach every summer.); go through something (The train goes through a long tunnel.); go + home/there/here (Please go home now.)

Similar words: travel, move

Common phrases: go home, go to school, go through something

To leave the place where you are.

• I must go now.
• She went before the party ended.
• Why did they go so early?

Similar words: leave, depart

Opposites: stay

Common phrases: go away, go now, go at once

To move to a particular page, file, or place in a computer system or your memory.

• Go to the next page.
• I went online to check the price.
• Her mind went straight to the memory of their first meeting.

How to use it: go to + page/file/location (Go to the settings menu.)

Similar words: navigate

Common phrases: go to settings, go online, go to something

To move a particular distance or move in a particular manner.

• Please go slowly.
• We went ten miles before lunch.
• How fast can this boat go?

How to use it: go + distance (We went five miles before stopping.); go + adverb (The bus goes slowly up the hill.)

Similar words: travel, move

Common phrases: go fast, go ten miles, go slowly

To change into a different state, often a bad or unusual one.

• The milk went bad.
• Her face went red when everyone looked at her.
• What could go wrong?

How to use it: go + adjective (The milk has gone bad.)

Similar words: become, turn

Common phrases: go bad, go blind, go wrong

To move to another time, in a story or by thinking about the past or future.

• The hero can go back in time.
• Her thoughts went back to her childhood.
• We must go back fifty years to understand this change.

How to use it: go back to + time (Let us go back to the year 1800.); go forward + time (The story goes forward twenty years.)

Similar words: move, fare, tread, draw

Common phrases: go back, go forward, go into history

An opportunity to take part in a game or activity when it is your turn.

• It is your go.
• Everyone had a go on the swing.
• Can I have another go?

How to use it: have a go at something (Let me have a go at the game.)

Similar words: turn

Common phrases: have a go, your go, another go

A game where two players place black and white stones on a board to claim more space.

• My father plays go.
• She bought a wooden go board.
• Two go players studied the position in silence.

Similar words: weiqi, baduk

Common phrases: play go, go board, go player