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Because it is common in English to talk about playing sports (eg playing basketball or playing tennis) students often over-generalise:
Dotty is going to play bowling in Kowloon City Plaza.
It is important to point out that the verb play is almost never followed by an -ing noun:
Dotty is going to go bowling in Kowloon City Plaza. [the most likely way of expressing this]
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