Sedentary
adjective
Spending a lot of time doing activities where you are inactive or seated.
A sedentary lifestyle can lead to many health problems.
Often appears as...
- sedentary lifestyle
- sedentary work
adjective
Living in one area or place, not moving around or migrating.
Sedentary birds like the quail rarely travel far from their homes.
Often appears as...
- sedentary species
- sedentary birds
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Academic
adjective
Permanently attached and not free-moving.
Barnacles are sedentary animals that attach themselves permanently to a surface.
Often appears as...
- sedentary organisms
- sedentary life
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Academic
adjective
Spending a lot of time doing activities where you are inactive or seated.
A sedentary lifestyle can lead to many health problems.
Often appears as...
- sedentary lifestyle
- sedentary work
adjective
Living in one area or place, not moving around or migrating.
Sedentary birds like the quail rarely travel far from their homes.
Often appears as...
- sedentary species
- sedentary birds
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Permanently attached and not free-moving.
Barnacles are sedentary animals that attach themselves permanently to a surface.
Often appears as...
- sedentary organisms
- sedentary life
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Health Concerns
Often implies negative health effects due to inactivity, useful in medical or health contexts.
Doctors warn against the dangers of a sedentary behavior.
Pro Tip 2/3Modern Lifestyle
Commonly used to describe modern work or leisure habits that involve sitting for long hours.
The sedentary nature of office jobs is a growing concern.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Laziness
Implies choice or necessity of lifestyle, not just lazy behavior; context is important.
Even active people can have sedentary jobs.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Concerns
Often implies negative health effects due to inactivity, useful in medical or health contexts.
Doctors warn against the dangers of a sedentary behavior.
Pro Tip 2/3Modern Lifestyle
Commonly used to describe modern work or leisure habits that involve sitting for long hours.
The sedentary nature of office jobs is a growing concern.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Laziness
Implies choice or necessity of lifestyle, not just lazy behavior; context is important.
Even active people can have sedentary jobs.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Concerns
Often implies negative health effects due to inactivity, useful in medical or health contexts.
Doctors warn against the dangers of a sedentary behavior.
Pro Tip 2/3Modern Lifestyle
Commonly used to describe modern work or leisure habits that involve sitting for long hours.
The sedentary nature of office jobs is a growing concern.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Laziness
Implies choice or necessity of lifestyle, not just lazy behavior; context is important.
Even active people can have sedentary jobs.
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Why sitting is bad for...
Our bodies love to sit, right? Not really. Sure, sitting for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around, and our bodies simply aren't built for such a sedentary existence. In fact, just the opposite is true.
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The history of marriage...
to the rights and responsibilities involved, has varied greatly between different eras, cultures and social classes. So, let's take a quick look at the evolution of marriage. Pair bonding and raising children is as old as humanity itself. With the rise of sedentary agricultural societies
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Ray Zahab treks to the...
That I'm this uber-endurance guy? As I stand here today talking to you guys, I've been running for the grand sum of five years. And a year before that I was a pack-a-day smoker, living a very sedentary lifestyle. What I take from this journey, from my journeys,
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Jared Diamond: How...
and most other sedentary traditional societies around the world. In those societies, older people are cared for. They are fed. They remain valuable. And they continue to live in the same hut or else in a nearby hut near their children,
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Retrofitting suburbia -...
linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles and those have been linked then with the rather alarming growing rates of obesity shown in these maps here and that obesity has also been triggering great increases in
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Jared Diamond: Lessons...
farming societies where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years and many other sedentary traditional societies around the world in those societies all the people are generally cared for the affair they remain
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Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles. And those have been linked then with the rather alarming, growing rates of obesity, shown in these maps here, and that obesity has also been triggering
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Meet Gita, the robot...
and people aren't moving more they're moving less and with greater difficulty and of course they're also having to manage the health consequences of the sedentary lifestyles that they've been
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The Secret World of...
remaining sedentary and colored to merge with the surrounding vegetation although their lifestyles may vary all nymphs come equipped to hunt with large compound eyes and an extendable lower
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Male Panda's 'Sexercise'...
sedentary than those in the wild have a daily sexercise to strengthen the leg muscles in preparation for the rigors of mating in the wild they'll mate with as many
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Why sitting is bad for...
Our bodies love to sit, right? Not really. Sure, sitting for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around, and our bodies simply aren't built for such a sedentary existence. In fact, just the opposite is true.
Video examples
The history of marriage...
to the rights and responsibilities involved, has varied greatly between different eras, cultures and social classes. So, let's take a quick look at the evolution of marriage. Pair bonding and raising children is as old as humanity itself. With the rise of sedentary agricultural societies
Video examples
Ray Zahab treks to the...
That I'm this uber-endurance guy? As I stand here today talking to you guys, I've been running for the grand sum of five years. And a year before that I was a pack-a-day smoker, living a very sedentary lifestyle. What I take from this journey, from my journeys,
Video examples
Jared Diamond: How...
and most other sedentary traditional societies around the world. In those societies, older people are cared for. They are fed. They remain valuable. And they continue to live in the same hut or else in a nearby hut near their children,
Video examples
Retrofitting suburbia -...
linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles and those have been linked then with the rather alarming growing rates of obesity shown in these maps here and that obesity has also been triggering great increases in
Video examples
Jared Diamond: Lessons...
farming societies where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years and many other sedentary traditional societies around the world in those societies all the people are generally cared for the affair they remain
Video examples
Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles. And those have been linked then with the rather alarming, growing rates of obesity, shown in these maps here, and that obesity has also been triggering
Video examples
Meet Gita, the robot...
and people aren't moving more they're moving less and with greater difficulty and of course they're also having to manage the health consequences of the sedentary lifestyles that they've been
Video examples
The Secret World of...
remaining sedentary and colored to merge with the surrounding vegetation although their lifestyles may vary all nymphs come equipped to hunt with large compound eyes and an extendable lower
Video examples
Male Panda's 'Sexercise'...
sedentary than those in the wild have a daily sexercise to strengthen the leg muscles in preparation for the rigors of mating in the wild they'll mate with as many
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Quote examples
Tony Buzan
English Author
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
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Randy Couture
American Actor
A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
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Ellen Burstyn
American Actress
All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
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Bruce Broussard
American Businessman
Our 'convenience culture' translates into too-available entertainment options, fast food, sedentary transportation, and the like. The fact is, if you want to eat right and live a healthy lifestyle, you have to work at it.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
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Jessie Pavelka
American Athlete
If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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Ben Miller
English Comedian
I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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Tony Buzan
English Author
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
Quote examples
Randy Couture
American Actor
A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
Quote examples
Ellen Burstyn
American Actress
All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
Quote examples
Bruce Broussard
American Businessman
Our 'convenience culture' translates into too-available entertainment options, fast food, sedentary transportation, and the like. The fact is, if you want to eat right and live a healthy lifestyle, you have to work at it.
Quote examples
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
Quote examples
Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
Quote examples
Jessie Pavelka
American Athlete
If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.
Quote examples
George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
Quote examples
Ben Miller
English Comedian
I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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