a pointless activity

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Engaging in a pointless activity; something futile". "2.

We were discouraged by the midwives who were telling us that it was a pointless activity.

They could not "force" the staff members to complete the form, and too many thought it was a "pointless activity in the end," and had abandoned the use at most sites within a season.

He is, quite evidently, engaged in a wholly pointless activity which he mistakenly sees as an effective means to his indefensible ends.

And pro-Kremlin blogger Ilya Varlamov compared Muscovites catching Pokémon to police catching opposition leaders in banned political protests — his implication being that both players and protesters were indulging in a similarly pointless activity.

Organized sports are an attempt, through regimentation (uniforms and trophies) and rhetoric (rah-rah boosterism and coach talk), to give an inherently pointless activity some kind of point, to inject a purpose into play.

But what is clear is that office workers are on a treadmill of pointless activity.

This is state-sponsored persecution of a protected species to please some of the richest people in the country, pursuing a cruel, destructive and pointless activity.

Politics is full of pointless activity that I did my best to minimise.

"For the life of me, I can't understand why I was involved in such pointless activity.

There was no privacy — the toilet stalls had no doors — and no rest from endless, pointless activity.