The phrase "futile activities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or behaviors that are ineffective, pointless, or without purpose. Example: Despite his busy schedule, John found himself engaging in futile activities such as mindlessly scrolling through social media and binge-watching TV shows.
The Pope said that these "futile" activities included chatting with others on the internet or via smartphones, as well as watching soap operas on TV.
Joe is a widower, alone in the world; he joylessly drinks and bets, and the aftermath of both futile activities is shown in the unwatchably brutal opening sequence, which demonstrates one of the great truths about angry and violent men: they are forever taking their anger out on someone or something else – someone or something weaker.
Nominating a "best conductor" is a futile activity, but many music connoisseurs, if pushed, would name the Latvian-born Jansons, who is chief conductor both of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Munich-based Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
"If you are completely lost, swimming through the murky waters of depression, self-care can be a very futile activity".
"Figuring out what you should have done differently," he told the commission, "is a really futile activity".
Do not mistake walking in circles for futile activity, because with each round, the pilgrim has lifted the Soul to another level of the winding curved path.
Greenspan: When you've been in government for 20 years, as I have been, the issue of retrospective and figuring out what you should have done differently is a really futile activity... My experience has been, in the business I was in I was right 70percentt of the time, but I was wrong 30percentt of the time and there are an awful lot of mistakes in 21 years.
This altruistic response of the public should be more effectively channeled to other blood-banking facilities outside hospitals where they will not interfere with triage and treatment of casualties, and the media should be educated to avoid directing the public to such futile activity.
Valiant but futile guerrilla activities, inspired largely by the Communist Party (1944 48), were brutally suppressed.
Contraband products like alcohol and weapons were also illegally traded, and the Spanish administration made futile attempts to suppress these activities.
Unless the minister plans to ban all such activity it seems an action as futile as the real Guy Fawkes's.
