"Kateřina a František často sbírají houby."

Translation: Kateřina and František often pick mushrooms.

[Lyn581999]

Isn't "sbírají" more like gathering or collecting than "picking"? Is it just "picking" because that's usual in English?

[kacenka9]

Yes and yes. Sbírat has little wider meaning. We "sbíráme" mushrooms, laundry from cloth lines, stamps, collectibles of any kind, bluberries, apples (you can also "trhat jablka" = rip apples literally?), anything we dropped on the floor, etc. And English picks most of them. Specially when it comes to fruits and veggies.

[renata34699]

Is it wrong when i used pick UP?

[VladaFu]

yes
https://www.jazykovka.info/studujeme-jazyky/czenglish/pick-up-vs-pick-mushrooms/