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creative activity

creative activity

1 3.4
Using imagination or skill to make something new, like painting and writing
  • noun
translation icon : actividad creativa
  • Creating a mural is a wonderful creative activity that allows artists to express their imagination.
  • free creative activity
  • creative activity and exploration
  • incorporating creative activity

Nature demands individual creative activity from us.

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Examples

  • Process objectives describe the nature of the creative activity that students are expected to engage in.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The students also devised several creative activities to enhance the former disciplinary units.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Nature demands individual creative activity from us.

  • Exploration is a private, creative activity, rather than a group activity.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Finally, persons involved in a creative activity make use of a variety of perspectives.

    Academic text (1997)
  • You found ways to stay connected to one another, pursue intellectual and creative activities, learn new skills and occasionally go viral.

  • Through dance teaching, creative activity in many arenas, not simply dance making, can be triggered and developed.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Guided analysis and creative activities help them synthesize knowledge about choral writing and performance techniques.

    Academic text (2003)
  • In a general lab, students can extend one-time or short-term creative activities into a composition process that continues over time.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Here are some practical ideas for incorporating the creative activities of composing and improvising into instrumental ensemble rehearsals.

    Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

creation
vscreative activity
349 1.8

The act of making something new

emphasizes using imagination and artistic skill to produce original work
creative thinking
vscreative activity
5 3.7

Thinking in new ways to make things or solve problems

is an actual process of using imagination and artistic skill to make original things

Antonyms

A daily pattern of plain unexciting activities like work and chores

How Creative

originality
30 4.5
creative activity
1 3.4
routine
263 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

creative + activity

This is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'creative' (able to invent or imagine new things) modifies 'activity' (a particular action), so the phrase literally denotes an activity involving creativity. The compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English syntax, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Creative activity combines the word create ('to make something new') and activity ('something you do'), so picture hands painting or someone composing a new song. That image helps explain why the phrase means using imagination or artistic skill to make something original.