The phrase "a sort of activity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an activity that is not precisely defined or is somewhat vague in nature.
Example: "The workshop will involve a sort of activity that encourages creative thinking and collaboration among participants."
Alternatives: "a type of activity" or "a kind of activity".
Stifled, isolated and forbidden any sort of activity, her illness curdles into full-blown madness.
My older son's LeapPad, a sort of electronic activity book, had saved us on a couple of long drives on previous summer vacations, especially after I discovered it had a jack for headphones.
It's fun stuff, relentless and demanding, and doing a very good job of providing the sort of tense Horde mode action we've been enjoying since Gears of War 2. And for Bungie, it's there to provide a sort of transitional activity for intermediate players.
What I will take away from Oldstone-Moore's book is an argument not stated outright in the text but nevertheless contained within it: that beards are something people like to chatter about and legislate over as a sort of displacement activity when they find it too awkward or confusing to address the issues that actually matter.
[Noises off. Oliver offers Penny a crust of bread.] WEINERT-KENDT My question as a parent is how this compares to a Music Together class or the like — a sort of ritual activity where kids play along and presumably take away something after a period of weeks.
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Perhaps the most significant is that the state will treat weed like a crop and not, as in Colorado's case, as a sort of industrial activity.
They believed that having individual and social moralities is a sort of spiritual activity.
The fact is that trying to explain meanings is just a different sort of activity, a different sort of explanation, from what the typical scientist who investigates physical features is interested in.
So I came up with a plan to introduce a different sort of activity -- something mindlessly soothing, something no one can win and no one can lose -- into our lives.
