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The phrase "an underground activity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to actions or events that occur secretly or outside of official channels, often implying illegality or subversiveness.
Example: "The group organized an underground activity to promote their cause without attracting government attention."
Alternatives: "a covert operation" or "a clandestine event".
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It needn't be an underground activity.
Some old-school hackers are almost appalled at the idea of using Twitter; in the past, it was an underground activity, and treated like Fight Club: the first rule was you didn't talk about it.
As abortion becomes an underground activity, women of childbearing age could be placed under scrutiny.
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Mr. Alshawkani did not say the defendants were innocent, instead saying "we don't have yet any proof" supporting the American government's charges, and adding that Sheik Moayad "was not known for any underground activities".
If you are involved in any "underground" activities (drugs, "birds of the night", gangs) make sure you're always in good company.
The fact remains that boxing, amateur or professional, is regarded more as an illicit, underground activity for reprobates than an Olympic and mainstream sport for general consumption.
Throughout the 1970s, German painting remained a kind of underground activity, with Beuys and German Conceptual artists like Hanne Darboven getting more international attention.
A passage leads under a crumpled resin ceiling that was molded from the earth after a subterranean fireworks explosion — as Mr. Gréaud explained, a "celebration and manifestation of underground activity".
Fireworks are a tradition and a moneymaker for all involved and a bureaucratic decision will not result in eradication, just underground activity, as when prohibition was unsuccessfully cast upon an unwilling populous.
The organization Mr. Groth leads was legalized in 1989 by Mikhail S. Gorbachev after years of underground activity, and now acts as a link between the Germans in the old Soviet republics and Bonn.
When Józef was four, Apollo was arrested by Poland's tsarist authorities for underground activity.
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