Verb
be in a state of action
Source: WordNetI shall be active and vigorous even from my tomb. Sai Baba of Shirdi
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. Billie Jean King
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example. Dan Buettner
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. Gore Vidal
This memorandum addresses the matter of how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration, Stated a bit more bluntly-how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. John Dean
I have never advocated "passive" anything. We must never submit to unjust laws. Never. And our resistance must be active and provocative. Mahatma Gandhi