'occasional lifting' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when speaking or writing about activities that involve lifting something every so often, rather than constantly or regularly. For example: "The job requires occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds."
In all the following scenes he pushes the stage business to the absolute sidelines, where the cast are required to show little interest in each other beyond the occasional lifted wine tumbler or self-consciously Latin smirk.
The Raiders get occasional lifts from Kerry Collins's passing, but they also give away the ball too often.
She knew Thomas Hamilton, the gunman who killed himself after taking 17 lives, and had given him occasional lifts in her car.
Much of the dancing is between a man and a woman; this involves the occasional lift by a woman of a man, which I found moving as well as truthful.
The romantic Lerner-and-Lowe songs and score gave more than an occasional lift to the unwieldy film adaptation of "Camelot," based on T. H. White's "Once and Future King".
His new book, Almost Like a Whale, has the same format as Darwin's great work, right down to the chapter titles and even the occasional sentence lifted word for word from the earlier book.
Murray, at 5 feet 11 inches and 195 pounds, stays in good businessman's shape, riding a stationary bicycle and lifting occasional weights in a gym in his home.
No problem, as Grandvalira is well signposted and connected, with plenty of chair lifts and the occasional drag lift.
The flower thief, as he is widely referred to, also strikes community gardens, ripping branches off trees, plucking blooms and lifting the occasional vegetable from gardeners, many of them retirees who spend the bulk of their free time tending to their plots, often decade after decade until death.
His mother lights up when she shows me pictures of Trayvon on her phone, even managing an occasional smile that lifts the shadow of grief and brightens her face.
