Activity ækˈtɪvəti Variety Time Business Extra Examples Involved

• leisure/outdoor/recreational activities
• the club provides a wide variety of activities including tennis, swimming and squash.
• criminal/terrorist/illegal activities
• he has decided to focus his time and resources on his business activities.

activity

1. a thing that you do for interest or pleasure
• leisure/outdoor/recreational activities
• The club provides a wide variety of activities including tennis, swimming and squash.

Extra Examples

• Shopping is now a leisure activity.
• The real value of social activities is being with friends and taking time out from the pressures of daily living.
• The students were involved in a range of extracurricular activities.
2. a thing that somebody does in order to achieve a particular aim
• SEE ALSO displacement activity
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/displacement-activity
• criminal/terrorist/illegal activities
• He has decided to focus his time and resources on his business activities.
• We met to review progress and to coordinate our activities.

Extra Examples

• They had been involved in a variety of criminal activities.
• Here's an activity you can do with mixed ability classes.
• The party's activities have been suspended.
• We suspect he may be involved in illegal activities.
• The main problem is that people may not report all of their physical activities on questionnaires.
3. a situation in which something is happening or a lot of things are being done
• COMPARE inactivity
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/inactivity
• Economic activity has taken a downturn this year.
• The streets were noisy and full of activity.
• Muscles contract and relax during physical activity.
• There was no criminal activity involved.
• The machines can monitor brain activity.

Extra Examples

• His income was derived from criminal activity.
• It will only be possible to stimulate business activity with an injection of public funds.
• Newspapers report a higher level of activity in the foreign exchange markets.
• Police watched the house all day, but there was no sign of activity.
• Teachers here are not allowed to engage in any political activity.
• The classroom was a hive of activity as the children prepared for the concert.
• The islands were formed by volcanic activity.
• The room was buzzing with activity.
• The scene was one of frenetic activity.
• There was a flurry of activity as the film star appeared on the balcony.
• They had engaged in sexual activity in the past three months.
• The ground is covered with evidence of human activity, particularly in the prehistoric period.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from French activité or late Latin activitas, from Latin act- ‘done’, from the verb agere.