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Activities

Activity \Ac*tiv"i*ty\, n.; pl. Activities. [Cf. F. activit['e], LL. activitas.] The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. ``The activity of toil.''
--Palfrey.

Syn: Liveliness; briskness; quickness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
activities

in schoolwork sense, 1923, American English, from activity.

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activities

n. (plural of activity English)

Usage examples of "activities".

We have no involvement in the activities of the Skang Kei, or their influence in cities, major or minor.

Were you concerned his activities, whatever they were, would rebound to the detriment of your people?

It is bad enough that their criminal activities throughout Chinpan have created an embarrassment and inconvenience for me.

We would always make sure to extinguish the lights so our shadows would not betray our activities against the door.

Very likely he gave me no further thought, having things of far more importance on his mind than the activities of some sleepless guest.

I could see a number of them were down upon the ground already, but as I approached riding hell-bent for leather, they turned from their activities and sought sanctuary in the air where I could not reach them.

Progressive Development of the Activities of the Open Conspiracy into a World Control and Commonweal: The Hazards Of the Attempt XIX.

And while this was going on I set myself to the task of making a review of all human activities in relation to each other, the work of people and the needs of people, cultivation, manufacture, trade, direction, government, and all.

The modern religious life, like all forms of religious life, must needs have its own subtle and deep inner activities, its meditations, its self-confrontations, its phases of stress and search and appeal, its serene and prayerful moods, but these inward aspects do not come into the scope of this present inquiry, which is concerned entirely with the outward shape, the direction, and the organization of modern religious effort, with the question of what, given religious devotion, we have to do and how that has to be done.

The way in which our activities conduce to the realization of that conceivable better order in human affairs, becomes the new criterion of conduct.

These things assured the abilities and energies of a greatly increased proportion of human beings could be diverted to the happy activities of scientific research and creative work, with an ever-increasing release and enlargement of human possibility.

The reasonable desire of all of us is that we should have the collective affairs of the world managed by suitably equipped groups of the most interested, intelligent, and devoted people, and that their activities should be subjected to a free, open, watchful criticism, restrained from making spasmodic interruptions but powerful enough to modify or supersede without haste or delay whatever is weakening or unsatisfactory in the general direction.

As its activities spread it will work out a whole system of special methods of co-operation.

The differences in nature and function between the world controls of the future and the state governments of the present age which we have just pointed out favours a hope that the Open Conspiracy may come to its own in many cases rather by the fading out of these state governments through the inhibition and paralysis of their destructive militant and competitive activities than by a direct conflict to overthrow them.

Most of us who are past our first youth know how little we can trust ourselves and glad to have our activities checked and guarded by a sense of helpful inspection.