📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (take something up, take up something): Become interested or engaged in a pursuit. ❗️ Examples: 1. She took up tennis at the age of 11. 2. Watching opera on television and attending live opera performances got her interested in taking it up as a career. 3. Mostly good weather favoured the event for the three weeks when outdoor pursuits could be taken up. 4. Mr Frost contacted Counsel and Care after reading about its national campaign to encourage older people to continue their artistic pursuits, or take them up for the first time. 5. She told me last week she once did kick-boxing and was interested in taking it up again when she moves to Sheffield! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic