# activity
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active +‎ -ity.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.tiː/
** Audio (UK, male voice):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi], /ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/, [ækˈtɪv.ə.ɾi]
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪvɪti

### Noun

activity (countable and uncountable, plural activities)
* (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
    Pit row was abuzz with activity.
* (countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
    Synonyms: pursuit, undertaking; see also Thesaurus:activity
    The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.
* (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
    An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.
    Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.
** 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
* (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
** 1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax‎, page 92:[…] distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
* (physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
* The property of substances to react with other substances

#### Antonyms

* rest
* passivity

#### Derived terms

* activities of daily living
* activity book
* activity group psychotherapy
* activity stream
* activity theory
* activity trap
* autoactivity
* beehive of activity
* bioactivity
* catalytic activity
* coactivity
* counteractivity
* crifanac
* cyberactivity
* cytoactivity
* dark-activity
* displacement activity
* electroactivity
* extravehicular activity
* fanac
* funtivity
* hectivity
* hive of activity
* hyperactivity
* hypoactivity
* ichnoactivity
* immunoactivity
* inactivity
* interactivity
* mechanoactivity
* microactivity
* minac
* multiactivity
* myoactivity
* neuroactivity
* nonactivity
* normoactivity
* optical activity
* overactivity
* pharmacoactivity
* photoactivity
* piezoactivity
* preactivity
* pulseless electrical activity
* radioactivity
* Raman optical activity
* role activity diagram
* self-activity
* seroactivity
* snacktivity
* specific activity
* structure-activity relationship
* subactivity
* superactivity
* surrogate activity
* thermoactivity
* ultrahazardous activity
* underactivity
* vacuum activity
* vasoactivity
* zone of polarizing activity

#### Collocations

* increased, decreased, high, low, volcanic, seismic, eruptive, intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, muscular, cerebral, favorite, recreational, practical, cultural, artistic, literary, musical, political, diplomatic, military, domestic, voluntary, missionary, chemical, optical, productive, reproductive, industrial, commercial, etc.

#### Translations

Armenian: գործունեություն (hy) (gorcuneutʻyun)
Asturian: actividá f
Bulgarian: де́йност (bg) f (déjnost)
Catalan: activitat (ca) f
Central Mazahua: b'ɇpji
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動作 / 动作 (zh) (dòngzuò)
Czech: činnost (cs) f
Danish: aktivitet c
Dutch: activiteit (nl) f, beweging (nl) f, werkzaamheid (nl) f
Egyptian: (st-ꜥ f)
Esperanto: aktivaĵo sg
Estonian: tegevus
Finnish: aktiviteetti (fi), tekeminen (fi), toiminta (fi)
French: activité (fr) f
Galician: actividade (gl) f
Georgian: აქტიურობა f (akṭiuroba)
German: Aktivität (de) f, Handlung (de) f, Tätigkeit (de) f
Greek: δράση (el) f (drási)
Ancient: ἐνέργεια f (enérgeia)
Hebrew: פְּעִילוּת (he) f (p'ilút)
Hungarian: tevékenység (hu)
Indonesian: kegiatan (id), aktivitas (id)
Italian: attività (it) f
Japanese: 活動 (ja) (かつどう, katsudō)
Korean: 활동(活動) (ko) (hwaldong)
Malay: kegiatan (ms), aktiviti (ms) (Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei), aktivitas (ms) (Riau and Sumatra)
Malayalam: പ്രയോഗം (ml) (prayōgaṁ), പ്രവൃത്തി (ml) (pravr̥tti)
Maltese: attività f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aktivitet (no) m
Nynorsk: aktivitet m
Polish: aktywność (pl) f
Portuguese: atividade (pt) f
Romanian: activitate (ro) f
Russian: де́йствие (ru) f (déjstvije), мероприя́тие (ru) f (meroprijátije), де́ло (ru) f (délo)
Sanskrit: प्रयोगः (sa) m (prayogaḥ)
Sardinian:
Logudorese: faìna
Scots: acteevity
Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhachd f
Semai: ektiviti, ektiviti
Slovak: činnosť f, aktivita f
Slovene: aktívnost f, dejávnost (sl) f
Spanish: actividad (es) f
Swedish: aktivitet (sv) c, sysselsättning (sv)
Thai: การเคลื่อนไหว (th) (gaan-klʉ̂ʉan-wǎi)
Tigrinya: ንጥፈት (nəṭfät)
Ukrainian: акти́вність (uk) f (aktývnistʹ), дія́льність (uk) f (dijálʹnistʹ)
Welsh: gweithgaredd (cy) m :
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#### Further reading

* “activity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “activity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.