When to use ing and when not to

As you may suspect, both versions are correct.

My sense of the difference is that we'd use the "-ing" form to refer to the expedition as a whole.
(It could include a hundred-mile motor trip and an overnight stay, etc.)

If you're taking a short break, warming up in the chalet, you might say to your friend,
"Well, I'm warm now. I'm going to go ski [some mor

AnonymousI'm going to go swimming.
I'm going to go swim.

The form with -ing is normal. The form without -ing is part of casual speech. This applies to all verbs that follow go in patterns like these.

For more on go {verb} -ing, see




For more on go (and) {verb}, see

CalifJimThe form without -ing is part of casual speech.

I read your refs.

Perhaps I need more instruction in "casual." I suppose there are degrees, as we have in "register."

Even if I were at Aspen with all the beautiful people, I could not bring myself to say, "I'm going to go skiing some more."

Okay, "I'm going to ski some more."

Avangi"casual."

I use it to avoid having to say "informal" all the time. I get tired of labeling everything "formal" and "informal", which are just two levels of "register". And, by the way, I consider "low register" lower than "informal". These are all my own subjective judgments, of course, and they may well differ from the judgments of others.

Thanks. That was a hypothetical in the true sense. Aspen is one spot I've missed!