Thesaurus results for ACTIVITIES

activity

noun

ak-ˈti-və-tē

as in exertion

energetic movement of the body for the sake of physical fitness had to restrict his activity after the surgery, which meant letting the weeds take over the garden

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Recent Examples of activity In the early 1970s, five students at San Rafael High School in Marin County, California, would meet after extracurricular activities near a wall at school. —

Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026 Residents of Islamabad have been reading between the lines about when these talks might take place, after administrators in both Islamabad and its sister city, Rawalpindi, denied reports on Saturday that commercial activity and transport were being curtailed. —

Npr Staff, NPR, 19 Apr. 2026 Avoid competitive activities and sports today. —

Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026 And are there other activities of note? —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for activity

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Jessica Scott, an exercise physiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, worked on early prototypes for NASA, anticipating that astronauts would be vulnerable to rapid muscle atrophy without physical exertion.

— Katia Riddle, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
Amid such a tumult of exertion and indulgence, the art of directing may seem like an afterthought or a footnote to the sheer volume of creative work that occurs even when the camera isn’t rolling.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026