Common Mistakes : Bathe

Bathe – Verb

BAD: Most nights when I come home, I’m too tired to bathe

GOOD: Most nights when I come home, I’m too tired to have a bath

In British English, bathe, have/go for a bathe and go bathing mean ‘swim, play or just relax in the water’ (NOT ‘get clean in a bath’): ‘It was the first time I’d bathed in the Red Sea.’ Nowadays most people use swim, have/go for a swim or go swimming for this meaning

‘In American English, bathe means ‘get clean in a bath