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Moderate activity is physical activity that is perceived as exertion in the range of light to somewhat hard. These can include sports, recreation, housework and work related activities. Regular moderate activities can be integrated into your lifestyle such as an individual who walks or cycles to work. A broad range of activities can be considered moderate but it often depends on how you perform the activity. For example, riding a bicycle at a moderate speed on a flat road versus vigorously cycling up hills. The following are illustrative examples of moderate activities.
Animal Care (e.g. farm work)
Badminton
Baseball
Bicycling Slowly / Moderately
Bodyboarding
Boxing a Punching Bag
Calisthenics (Light)
Canoeing (Leisurely)
Caring for Young Children (e.g. carrying a baby)
Carpentry
Catch Ball
Children's Play (active free play)
Cultural Performances (e.g. folk dance)
Curling
Dancing
Dodgeball
Easy Jogging
Elliptical Machine
Exercise Routine (light)
Fencing / LARP
Fishing (while canoeing or walking)
Four-Square
Frisbee
Gardening
Gymnastics (light)
Hiking (Light)
Home Maintenance (e.g. cleaning gutters)
Home Repair (e.g. sanding floors)
Hopscotch
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating (leisurely)
Kick Ball (e.g. passing soccer ball)
Lawn Care / Yardwork
Musical Performances
Physical Housework (e.g. mopping)
Physical Occupations (e.g. cleaning services)
Physical Video Games (e.g. dancing as part of a game)
Physical Work (e.g. carrying groceries)
Playing With Animals
Playing on Playground Equipment
Pushing a Stroller
Rollerskating (leisurely)
Rowing / Rowing Machine (light effort)
Sailing
Shooting Hoops (basketball)
Shovelling Light Snow
Skateboarding
Skating (leisurely)
Skiing / Snowboarding (moderately)
Softball
Stair Climbing (leisurely)
Surfing
Swimming Slowly
Table Tennis (competitive)
Tag
Tennis (light)
Touch Football
Training Animals
Trampolining (moderately)
Treading Water
Treadmill
Using Crutches
Using Manual Wheelchair
Volleyball
Walking Briskly
Walking a Dog (briskly)
Washing Windows
Water Aerobics
Waterskiing
Weight Training (non-intensive)
Wood Chopping (leisurely pace)
Woodworking

Notes

Moderate activity can be objectively measured using your heart rate during the activity. An activity is considered moderate if it raises your heart rate to between 64% and 76% of your maximum heart rate.1 This can be roughly estimated by subtracting your age from 220 bpm.2 For example, the maximum heart rate of a 60 year old would be 220-60 = 160 bpm with moderate activity falling between 102 bpm and 122 bpm.
Moderate activity depends on your physical fitness. For example, it wouldn't be the same for a marathon runner and someone who has never exercised at all.
Many of the activities above could be vigorous, depending how you do them.
Moderate activity typically burns 3-6 times as much energy as sitting still.3
In order to be considered moderate activity, effort must be sustained for a period of time. For example, walking to the kitchen 100 times over 12 hours wouldn't be moderate activity even if you walked as many steps as in a brisk 20 minute walk.
Many team sports such as a soccer game are considered vigorous activity. Practices such as passing a soccer ball or shooting hoops may be moderate.

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References

1,2 CDC, Target Heart Rate and Estimated Maximum Heart Rate, 2022.
3 Harvard School of Public Health, Examples of Moderate and Vigorous Physical Activity, 2022.

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