The phrase "activities of the sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to specific types or categories of activities that have been previously mentioned or are understood in context.
Example: "We often engage in activities of the sort that promote teamwork and collaboration among employees."
Alternatives: "similar activities" or "such activities".
"The contents of these conversations touched on illicit activities of the sort relevant to this dispute," Camilleri said.
So every Friday Cara spends the day pond dipping, bug watching, den building and various other entertaining activities of the sort that middle class people often pay around £10 per child, per hour, for at forest school.
On the other hand, if novelty is a big factor, the new Lib Dems may pop up in precisely the places where it can do them the least good – places where there has been little local campaigning activity of the sort that has built up the Lib Dem strongholds.
As you might expect, activity of this sort produces the need for a few comments, corrections and updates in the effort to be completely accurate, along with passing along some additional information that should be of interest.
I think we're going to see a lot of activity in the sort of retrofitting industry, taking a lot of these construction workers and putting them to work making energy-efficient buildings and putting more insulation in homes and things like that, which will put those people to work, which is a good thing.
Now a scientist in the drug discovery group, Zimmerman has been working on structure-activity relationship studies of the sort that are the bread and butter of any drug discovery effort.
These enzymes all function to disassemble specific polymeric protein structures, with Vps4 disassembling the ESCRT-III polymers that are central to the many membrane-remodeling activities of the ESCRT (endosomal sorting complexes required for transport) pathway and spastin, katanin p60 and fidgetin affecting multiple aspects of cellular dynamics by severing microtubules.
WASHINGTON North Koreaea's declaration of its nuclear activities is a triumph of the sort of diplomacy — complicated, plodding, often frustrating — that President Bush and his aides once eschewed as American weakness.
This result is shown in Figure 2B as a heatmap displaying activity of the compounds, sorting the cells by pathway prediction and the compounds by relative activity for a given cell line.
But it nevertheless uses vocabulary and describes activities of a sort that readers of The New York Times are usually shielded from.
