The phrase "activities will pick up" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a certain level of activity or engagement is expected to increase in the future.
Example: "As the holiday season approaches, we anticipate that activities will pick up significantly in our community center."
Alternatives: "activities will increase" or "activities will intensify".
Thrivers on the other hand are actively planning for the next market correction with 41% of them thinking bankruptcy activity will pick up pace in 2019.
It is growing, admittedly slowly, but it is still growing and I expect economic activity will pick up more momentum".
But Fed officials and many outside economists predict that the lull will be temporary and that activity will pick up again by the fall.
Under current conditions, the oil "tap" is not so dry, though presumably, economic activity will pick up someday and oil will become scarce again.
Scientists expect that sunspot activity will pick up in the coming months, but exactly what will happen next is open to debate.
It looks like a sign that America's economy has slowed, perhaps hit by weaker growth overseas (although economists are hoping that activity will pick up later this year).
But if your mind drifts over to your upcoming performance review your brain activity will pick up and the sound of the wind will rise.
A recent article in American Banker pointed out all the reasons that most observers think that M&A activity will pick up as the year progresses.
J.P. Morgan's Imran Khan, for instance, predicts Yahoo and Microsoft will finally strike a search deal, video advertising on the Web isn't working, retail bankruptcies could actually help e-commerce companies, and that M&A activity will pick up in the second half of 2009 (but the IPO market will be dead until 2010).
Economists have said they think consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of U.S. economic activity, will pick up in the spring and summer after a slow start to 2017.
