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Answer for the clue "Greedy activity ", 7 letters:
hogging

Word definitions for hogging in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. take greedily; take more than one's share [also: hogging , hogged ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hogging \Hog"ging\, n. (Naut.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. Hogging frame . See Hogframe .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hogging can mean: Hogging (sexual practice) Hogging and sagging , the stress a ship is put under when it passes over the crest of a wave Hogging (UK English), the cutting of a horse's mane as short as possible, or short enough so that it stands up straight. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context nautical English) Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from (term sagging English). n. (context slang English) The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or ...

Usage examples of hogging.

A large woman in a purple Hawaiian mumu came in the door and gave Krystal and me the glare, like she thought we were hogging the room to have lesbian sex.

In the foreground, hogging most of the screen, Renascence turns imperceptibly on its axis, its dayside green-gold, and tinged with blue.

The left half of the screen showed Simferopol, with the interpreter Kolinski hogging it: the right half showed America watching.

Later, however, the FCC repented its generosity and decided that TV was hogging too much of the broadcast spectrum (each TV channel requires a bandwidth 600 times as wide as an individual radio station does).

Suddenly the kid is practicing by himself after school and even after his summer job: eight hours at Cassadaga Gravel, then home to eat, then out to a playground or to the park to practice more hours, the sign of a sure professional, and if Hank Breuer senses from time to time that there is anything excessive or troubling about the boy's dedication to the sport he isn't going to inquire, isn't that kind of coach, and especially not to the black boys on his teams What he likes about Jinx Fairchild is Jinx is the kind of natural athlete so good at what he does there's no need for boasting and strutting and hogging the ball.

Big cars out from Charlevoix, rich slobs riding behind their chauffeurs, came up and passed, hogging the road and not dimming their lights.