take to

Verb

take to (third-person singular simple present takes to, present participle taking to, simple past took to, past participle taken to)

1. (idiomatic) To adapt to; to learn, grasp or master.
   • Although he had never skated before, he took to it quickly, and soon glided around the ice with ease.
   • She took to swimming like a fish.
2. (idiomatic) To enter; to go into or move towards.
   • As the train rushed through, thousands of birds took to the air at once.
   • When I felt sleepy I took to my bed.
3. (idiomatic) To begin, as a new habit or practice.
   • After the third one was rejected, she took to asking the department to check the form before she submitted it.
   • "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, / And argued each case with my wife;[…]"1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, [poem “You...
4. (idiomatic) To be attracted to.
   • She met Ned when he was looking anyway. . . . And he took to her, he liked her crooked straightness from the start.2002 December 22, Kerry Hardie, “First Chapter: A Winter Marriage”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jun 2015