"do for pleasure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that you do something because you enjoy it. For example: "I like to knit for pleasure, not for profit."
It was something I decided I would do for pleasure - or money - or perhaps not at all really......
In seeking to explain the lagging reading scores, some experts point to declines in the amount of reading children do for pleasure as they devote more free time to surfing the Internet, texting on cellphones or watching television.
I was in college before the thought occurred to me that reading was something I could do for pleasure.
Game is commonly defined as "a physical or mental activity or contest that has rules and that people do for pleasure" (Merriam-Webster.com, 2015), although its definition has been widely debated and has assumed different forms (Caillois, 1991; Crawford, 2003; Feyerabend, 1955).
Jessica Steeber's photo collection of light fittings is partly done for pleasure.
The notion that Russian society considered worthwhile what Perelman did for pleasure came as a surprise.
Prevost's book presents itself as a book of tricks, to be done for pleasure.
But his images of Times Square, one of which is shown above, were done for pleasure.
My father believed that anything done for pleasure was escapism, except, of course, when it came to seducing his secretaries and most of my mother's friends.
When I asked him, to that end, what he did for pleasure these days, he said, "I like changing the interiors of the house, or sometimes even the exterior of the house.
