Activity and Effort

Activity

Activity noun - Energetic movement of the body for the sake of physical fitness.

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Effort and activity are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effort" instead a noun "Activity".

Nearby Words: action, active, activate, actively, activist

Effort noun - Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.

Usage example: made an effort to cover all the reading material

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Activity and effort are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Activity" instead a noun "Effort".

human	human activity	human effort
high	high activity	high effort
physical	physical activity	physical effort
particular	particular activity	particular effort
Other adjectives: genuine, actual, constant, extreme, intense, little, heroic, mental, possible, last.

The first, few successful years of Germany's Operation Barbarossa saw what ultimately boiled down to a German effort to annihilate all (or, at least, a majority) of human activity—institutions, agriculture, lives—of the western Soviet Union, in an effort to free up 'living space'.

Source: Hopeless War
They tend to approach pretty much every new activity with endless enthusiasm and put a lot of effort into it, and then abandon it as soon as it becomes evident that it won't get them their cutie marks.

Source: Fleeting Passionate Hobbies
He also exercises regularly because being thin means less weight to drag around, and physical activity is less effort if you're in good shape.

Source: Laborious Laziness

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