activity

Definition

  • noun: the state of being active
  • noun: the quality or state of being 'active'
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: act, acting, action

Examples

  • The police are now monitoring criminal/gang/drug 'activity' in the area.

  • There has been an increase in the city's (level of) economic 'activity'.

  • The instruments are used to detect volcanic 'activity' on the island.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) No woman's gonna last a week. I don't care who she is. Then I suggest we start there. Good work. Hostile activity. Mined area. I say again: Hostile activity, mined area. Maintaining holding action. Carrying one wounded. (..)
    1997 G.I. Jane
  • (..) Degrading remarks by other aviators, innuendo about her performance in unrelated situations. There's even a reference here to her sexual activity the weekend prior. These are not unrelated circumstances. In my seven years on this committee, I have never seen a downed aviator (..)
    1997 G.I. Jane