Other forms: activities
An activity is something people do, especially for interest or exercise. An outdoor activity, activity holiday, physical activity.
In health writing, physical activity is the broad term covering everything from walking to sport, and the message that has held up is that any amount beats none. In institutions, activities are the organised things laid on. Note active, from the Latin for doing.
1nounactivitySomething people do, especially for interest or exercise.
“The hotel offers lots of activities for children, such as swimming and pony rides.”
activity is an occupation.
Latin activitas comes from activus, from agere, to do. Agent, act and agile come from the same doing.
Latin
āctīvitās
Middle French
activité
English, today
activity
Borrowed from Middle French activité, from Latin āctīvitās. From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA