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Definitions of activity:

noun: any specific activity
Example: "They avoided all recreational activity"
noun: (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
Example: "Catalytic activity"
noun: the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically
Example: "The level of activity declines with age"
noun: the state of being active
Example: "His sphere of activity"
noun: an organic process that takes place in the body
Example: "Respiratory activity"
noun: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
Example: "Volcanic activity"

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to activity: (849 results)
Synonyms:
action, activeness, bodily function, bodily process, body process, natural action, natural process

More general:
act, biological process, capability, capacity, human action, human activity, organic process, process, radiation, state, trait

More specific:
ablactation, absorption, acidification, acting, activating, activation, aeration, agency, aid, anastalsis, animation, antiredeposition, arrangement, assist, assistance, attempt, bag, behavior, behaviour, breath, breathing, burst, business, busyness, buzz, capture, cataphoresis, centrifugation, ceremony, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, child's play, chromatography, cinch, clotting, coagulation, concealing, concealment, concretion, condensation, conduct, consumption, continuance, continuation, control, controlling, convection, creation, crying, cup of tea, curdling, decay, deeds, delectation, demagnetization, demand, desorption, diffusion, disassembly, discharge, dish, disintegration, dismantlement, dismantling, dissipation, dissolution, distillation, distillment, disturbance, diversion, domesticity, drift, duck soup, dynamism, ecesis, ecological succession, education, educational activity, effervescence, effort, electrophoresis, emission, emplacement, employment, endeavor, endeavour, energizing, enjoyment, eructation, eruption, establishment, exercise, expectoration, expelling, extinction, extraction, feedback, festering, filtration, fit, flocculation, flow, fossilization, fractional process, fractionation, fun, game, geological process, grooming, grouping, guarding, hardening, healing, hell, help, helping, hiding, hunt, hunting, hypostasis, ignition, induction, ingestion, insemination, instruction, intake, ion exchange, ionization, lachrymation, lacrimation, lactation, last, lavation, leach, leaching, leadership, leading, line, line of work, liveliness, locating, location, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, market, marketplace, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, misconduct, natural selection, nuclear reaction, occupation, oomph, operation, organisation, organization, oscillation, outlet, overactivity, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, pattern, pedagogy, performing, peristalsis, perspiring, perturbation, phase change, phase transition, picnic, piece of cake, pizzaz, pizzazz, placement, placentation, playacting, play, playing, pleasure, position, positioning, practice, precedence, precession, precession of the equinoxes, preparation, presentation, procedure, protecting, protection, providing, provision, puncture, puncturing, pushover, reaction, readying, recreation, release, respiration, response, role, scattering, search, searching, secreting, selection, sensory activity, sericulture, service, set, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sin, situating, sleeping, snap, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, solidification, solidifying, solo, sorption, space walk, spiritedness, state change, stimulation, succession, supply, supplying, support, supporting, suppuration, survival, survival of the fittest, sweating, swing, synergism, synergy, teaching, tearing, tears, temperature change, timekeeping, training, transduction, transpiration, try, turn, uptake, usage, use, utilisation, utilization, variance, variation, vermiculation, vitrification, walkover, washing, waste, wastefulness, watering, weeping, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing, zing

Often used in the same context:
activities, event, hobby

Appears in the definition of:
., accountability, ace inhibitor, active, active agent, actus reus, adrenarche, adrenosterone, aeronautical engineering, aestivation, aim, allow, amygdalotomy, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, answerability, answerableness, anticatalyst, antifeminism, antithyroid, arousal, associate, associationism, association theory, athletic game, athletics, attention span, automotive engineering, automotive technology, avocation, back away, back out, balanced diet, bandwagon effect, basic training, beginner, bellwether, bestiality, bioassay, bisexuality, blind, blunt, bookkeeping, bottle collection, break, break away, break in, breeding, brutalisation, brutalization, building, bullfighting, business activity, business cycle, business enterprise, bustling, busy, by-line, byplay, calculate, call, call in, caper, cardiography, care, carry over, cease, cease and desist order, center, centre, cephalosporin, charity, chauvinism, chemical engineering, chicken, circadian rhythm, circumstance, clampdown, clerking, clinic, clonic, cloning, coenzyme, cognitive operation, cognitive process, combined, comeback, come back, command, commercial activity, commercial enterprise, commit, committal to writing, communicating, communication, communications technology, company, computer technology, concerted, condemn, conjunct, conjunctive, consecrate, construction, continue, cooperative, correction, countercurrent, cox-2 inhibitor, crawfish, crawfish out, create, crosscurrent, crowd control, curtain raiser, cutting, dabbler, dead, deaden, decipherment, decoding, decryption, dedicate, deflation, depress, depressant, depression, depressor, depressor nerve, devote, diestrum, diestrus, dilettante, direct, directive, discontinue, disinfestation, disrupt, distribution, district manager, dormant account, downswing, downturn, dramatics, dressing, dry walling, earthquake, ease, eeg, electrification, electrocardiography, electroencephalogram, electromyograph, electroretinogram, encephalogram, encoding, encryption, endocrine system, energy, engage, enjoining, enjoinment, enlightened, enthusiast, entrant, environmentalism, enzymology, erotica, estivation, estrus, exercising, exportation, exporting, facilitatory, facts of life, fatigue fracture, feel like, fetich, fetish, figurehead, film editing, finance, firing line, fits and starts, fixation, fixings, fledgeling, fledgling, focal seizure, focus, followup, follow-up, formation, freshman, frolic, front, front man, fueling, full-time, gambol, gammopathy, gb, genital phase, genital stage, get back, give, give-and-take, give up, glide, gliding, glucocorticoid, go along, go back, golden age, gold standard, gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin, go on, graphic, grass roots, haircare, hair care, hairdressing, half-time, hamas, handwriting, harvest, hauling, heat, heparin, hesitate, hibernation, hobbyist, hold, horizon, hot, hub, hugger-mugger, hum, hustle, hyperpituitarism, id, importation, importing, inaction, inactive, inactiveness, in full swingp, inherently, inhibitor, initiate, injunction, inscription, inspiration, interchange, interdict, interdiction, interest, interest group, interference, intermission, interrupt, invigoration, islamic resistance movement, jest, job, jocularity, joke, keep, keynesianism, lamentation, land-office business, laughter, law, lay off, lecherous, lechery, leisure, lethargic, lifeless, limber up, line duty, line function, lipo-hepin, liquaemin, lively, logjam, loosen up, loss, maintain, maintenance, make, male chauvinism, managerial, manic, mask, mastery, mecholyl, mefoxin, mental process, meshugaas, metalwork, metalworking, methacholine, military operation, minesweeping, mishegaas, mishegoss, miss, mixer, molecular biologist, molecular biology, molecular genetics, molestation, monopolistic, moratorium, mother, mountain climbing, mountaineering, mourning, mumbo jumbo, music, myogram, mystification, negotiation, neophyte, neurochemical, newbie, newcomer, noise, nominal head, notation, novice, now, nsaid, obfuscation, occupational, oestrus, off-peak, old growth, orgiastic, orgy, overdrive, paedophilia, paraphilia, participant, participating, partisan, partizan, part-time, party, past master, patrol, pause, peacekeeping, peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation, peak, pedophilia, permit, pet, physical, physical exercise, physical exertion, piece of work, pilot program, pilot project, piscatorial, piscatory, platoon, pluck, point, political arena, political sphere, porn, porno, pornography, portraiture, positron emission tomography, preservation, proceed, procreation, professionalisation, professionalise, professionalization, professionalize, prolusion, prosecute, prostaglandin, pseudoscience, pull back, pull in one's horns, pursue, purview, quake, quiet, quietly, quit, raging, railroading, rail technology, rainmaking, raising, reciprocation, reconstruction, refreshment, refueling, regeneration, regulator, relaxation, repose, representation, reproduction, requirement, rest, result, resultant role, resurgence, retreat, return, revenue enhancement, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification, roll, romp, round, round of golf, roundup, rousing, rush, rut, safe sex, sailing, sailplaning, sale, sarin, saving, schedule, sciolist, sector, secularisation, secularization, sedative-hypnotic, sedative-hypnotic drug, seethe, seism, selflessness, self-sacrifice, sell, session, set about, sex drive, sideline, sign up, sit out, smoke, smut, soaring, sociable, social, social activity, social service, spare-time activity, spearhead, specialised, specialized, sphere, spree, spring-cleaning, stage business, stand, standstill, starter, stimulating, stimulative, stocking, stop, strawman, straw man, stress fracture, subconscious, subconscious mind, subterfuge, superscription, sweatshirt, synergist, talent, tax, tax advantage, taxation, tax benefit, tax break, temblor, temperature, terrorist, throw, thymosin, tie-up, time, tiro, tolerate, toy, trade cycle, traffic, triassic, triassic period, trimmings, truckage, trucking, tune-up, tyro, unconscious, unconscious mind, undertake, unergetic, uninitiate, united, upkeep, up-tick, upturn, vegetative, vegetive, vent, vested interest, view, vigorous, vim, virgin forest, visiting, vitality, vivification, volcanism, votary, warm up, warm-up, waste of time, welfare work, window-washing, withdraw, working, workout, wrongful conduct, year, zooerastia, zooerasty

Antonyms:
inertia

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