sedentary
Sitting most days
Sedentary describes a lifestyle or activity involving much sitting and little physical movement: a sedentary job, sedentary habits.
Health warnings about sedentary behavior have made the word common in wellness contexts.
In zoology, sedentary species stay in one place rather than migrating: Sedentary birds remain year-round.
Unable to shift
- motionlessLacking all movement
- staticWithout motion or change
- unmovingLacking any motion
- idleWithout activity or purpose
dormant · stagnant · stationary · passive · still · inert · resting · sitting
Restored or immovable
- rootedFirmly established in place
- establishedFormally set up
- permanentFixed without end
- stationaryNot in motion
homesteading · agrarian · territorial · localized · indigenous · dwelling
Slow and inactive
- listlessLacking energy or enthusiasm
- languidWeak and without vigor
- torpidInactive and slow
- drowsyNearly falling asleep
fatigued · unenergetic · slothful · indolent · apathetic · lackadaisical · weary · enervated
Interactive electronic entertainment
Professional work location
- workstationTechnical computing system
- computerElectronic calculating device
- keyboardArray of input keys
- cubiclePartitioned office workspace
clerical · administrative · paperwork · telecommute · corporate · bureaucracy · typing · monitor
immobile
Unable to shift
- motionlessLacking all movement
- staticWithout motion or change
- unmovingLacking any motion
idle · dormant · stagnant · stationary · passive · still · inert · resting · sitting · reclining
fixed
Restored or immovable
- rootedFirmly established in place
- establishedFormally set up
- permanentFixed without end
stationary · homesteading · agrarian · territorial · localized · indigenous · dwelling
sluggish
Slow and inactive
drowsy · fatigued · unenergetic · slothful · indolent · apathetic · lackadaisical · weary · enervated · unmotivated
gaming
Interactive electronic entertainment
office
Professional work location
- workstationTechnical computing system
- computerElectronic calculating device
- keyboardArray of input keys
cubicle · clerical · administrative · paperwork · telecommute · corporate · bureaucracy · typing · monitor · commute
- fitness levelsfit, unfit, in shape, out of shape, athletic
- health risksobesity, diabetes, smoking, hypertension, air pollution
- anthropologyanthropology, fieldwork, ethnography, social anthropology, cultural anthropology
- non-athletesspectators, fans, viewers, observers, couch potato
- health stancespro-vaccine, anti-vaccine, anti-vax, pro-life, pro-choice
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- sedentary lifestyleHabitual physical inactivity
- sedentary lifeHabitual physical inactivity