The phrase "avoid practicing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from engaging in a particular practice or activity.
Example: "To improve your skills, you should avoid practicing the same mistakes repeatedly."
Alternatives: "refrain from practicing" or "steer clear of practicing".
These days, many boat racers avoid practicing in the lake.
The piano is one thing to a pianist, another to a piano tuner, another to an interior designer with no interest in music, and yet another to a child who wants to avoid practicing.
There is another consideration in this judgment: it is not only important that the Government and its employees in fact avoid practicing political justice, but it is also critical that they appear to the public to be avoiding it, if confidence in the system of representative Government is not to be eroded to a disastrous extent.
Does your partner push you to avoid practicing safe sex?
Never go skating and avoid practicing your axel!
Think about what else you can do to avoid practicing the bad habit.
Tim McKee, a football coach who avoids practicing on Wednesday, which is church night, said, "If you could get all the football programs in the state of Minnesota to agree to this, I'd be the first one to sign".
This tract did not so much articulate Newton's metaphysics as celebrate the fact that he avoided practicing such speculations altogether.
Robert De Niro didn't become Robert De Niro by avoiding practicing his craft.
A major effort is needed to avoid practices that exacerbate the negative impacts of food production and consumption on climate, water and ecosystems.
By the beginning of seventh grade, though, Greg's interest in sports had waned, and he was frequently making elaborate excuses to avoid practice.
