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activity Definition

ac·tiv·ity (ak tiv′ə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. the quality or state of being active; action
  2. energetic action; liveliness; alertness
  3. a normal function of the body or mind
  4. an active force
  5. any specific action or pursuit recreational activities
  6. Chem.
    1. the ability to react with other chemicals
    2. a thermodynamic quantity which represents the effective concentration of a substance in a reacting chemical system
    3. optical activity

activity Synonyms

activity

n.

  1. The state of being active

    motion, movement, exercise, liveliness; see action 1.

  2. A pursuit

    pursuit, exercise, project, venture; see enterprise 1, exercise 2.

activity Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • undertake: Your Faculty Team Librarian will provide you with an Annual Report detailing library activity undertaken in support of the Department / School.
  • organize: Now in its 19th year, the national event involves 100,000 children in activities organized by local authorities and local people across the country.
  • learn: I contact for more information on out of school hours learning activities?
  • co-ordinate: A national body should be better resourced to co-ordinate activity and provide advice to businesses, both large and small.
  • fundrais: However, virtually all the older universities have now invested substantially into fundraising activity, most have ten or more full time fundraising staff.
  • associate: Xenova retains responsibility for performing development activities associated with the program to the end of Phase II clinical trials.

Preposition: on

  • behalf: We pride ourselves that our activity on behalf of our clients has earned their confidence and respect worldwide.

Adjective modifier

  • physical: Recent research has found that regular physical activity can add two or more years to life expectancy.
  • outdoor: Conservation volunteering is a worthwhile and healthy outdoor activity which makes a pleasant change from sitting at a desk!
  • economic: The rapid increase in economic activity between 1984 and 1987 put a strain on the service.
  • criminal: Whilst this aims to increase awareness of criminal activity, the project also looks to reduce the fear of crime among young people.
  • human: Those factors that can be influenced by human activity require very specific expertise.
  • recreational: There is also a contacts directory, related links, an events directory, and information on recreational activities.

Modifies a noun

  • sheet: There are also eleven photocopiable activity sheets, including some in spreadsheet format for simple and speedy data collection.

Noun used with modifier

  • leisure: Watching television, then, could indeed be considered a leisure activity.
  • sporting: Further enhance your cover with options including winter sports, golf cover and a range of hazardous sporting activities.
  • marketing: Section 21 may be particularly relevant to marketing activities prior to the issue of the Memorandum.
  • research: Main research areas The research activities focus on issues concerning aging.
  • trading: Facts not directly related to the trading activities are considered irrelevant in determining the locality of profits.
  • fun: Kingswood Activity Centers are the UK's leading provider of residential educational and fun activities for schools.
activity Quotes

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

—Aristotle

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

—Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

—Dudek, Louis

Hislife was oneround of activity which hehimself might deplore but was powerless to prevent.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

Asthe strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

—Bishop, Elizabeth