The phrase "avoid lifting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is advising against the act of lifting something, often for safety or health reasons.
Example: "To prevent injury, please avoid lifting heavy objects without assistance."
Alternatives: "refrain from lifting" or "steer clear of lifting".
Farida Yesmin advises a young mother, expecting her fourth child, of the need to rest and avoid lifting heavy pots of water.
Young claims the shipping company refused to accommodate her pregnancy by giving her a temporary assignment to avoid lifting heavy packages.
When talking with patients, doctors and nurses often say things with unintended negative suggestions, like "it's just going to bleed a bit" or "you must avoid lifting heavy objects — you don't want to end up paralyzed".
Young was pregnant with Triniti, who is now seven, when UPS told her she could not have a temporary assignment to avoid lifting heavy packages, as her doctor had ordered.
A car must not only slice through the air but also generate hundreds of pounds of downforce to remain stable and avoid lifting off like a run-amok plane.
Or, even worse, that they might avoid lifting weights or training hard because they don't want to "bulk up" and look more like the muscular athletes they are than catwalk models.
The Japanese letters were modified in order to avoid lift up from the stylus by orthographically projecting the aerial path in the 2-dimensional reference of the letter.
During his rehabilitation from his strained left hamstring, Martínez avoided lifting heavy weights, which he said helped loosen his shoulder.
The respondents to our questionnaire said that, after suffering a WRMD, they paid more attention to correcting body mechanics, avoided lifting heavy equipment or patients, changed position frequently, and got other personnel to help them with tasks that involved lifting.
Skiers in search of soft powder and fresh-groomed runs start on Eagle and follow the sun over to Main or the backside of the mountain (to avoid lift lines, reverse the order).
Improvements in body mechanics (21%), avoiding lifting (16%), and changing working positions frequently (14%) were the top three changes that the injured respondents said they made in their working habits (Table 6).
