The phrase "activists play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the role or actions of activists in a particular context or situation.
Example: "Activists play a crucial role in raising awareness about climate change and advocating for policy changes."
Alternatives: "activists engage" or "activists participate".
Proponents say activists play a key role in the markets, shaking up entrenched interests and unlocking long-term value by acting as change agents.
Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images 6.19pm GMT En passant: Pro-European Union activists play chess during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.
"The war gave women in the camps more opportunities to become involved in the daily operations of the independence struggle and the effort to build a state in exile," he said, while across the border in the territory, female activists play a "huge role".
Young activists play a pivotal role in shaping such discourse.
However, for Tamini, activists play an essential role in ending the occupation because of the power they have to change the perception of Palestinians abroad.
Most analysts expect this to become a larger flashpoint as liberal activists play up the coverage loss and premium increases and as Republicans debate the issue among themselves.
African-American women activists played a major role in the founding and development of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCCC).
It took political maneuvering, legal strategy, lumbering social and economic change in which activists played little direct role.
In 2002 College Republicans (together with gun activists) played the same sort of role in the party that trade unionists and blacks have long played in the Democratic Party.
But Plowshares activists played a marginal role in the new movement, which relied on mainstream tactics, like circulating petitions and seeking new legislation, not direct action.
Environmental activists played up the report's finding that it is possible for fracking operations to harm drinking water in certain circumstances.
