Modifies a noun

• lifestyle: These figures are based on adults with a sedentary lifestyle wishing to maintain their current weight.

• counterpart: Researchers found joint and muscle pain were about 25 % lower among the regular exercisers compared with their more sedentary counterparts.

• occupation: More people are in sedentary occupations; more drive where they used to walk.

• habit: An average grown man in England of sedentary habits needs about 2,500 calories a day to maintain a stable weight.

• behavior: Of particular interest was the fact that the amount of sedentary behavior did not appear to affect young people's level of physical activity.

• existence: He settled in Seven Oaks in Kent but remained active until poor health late in life forced him into a more sedentary existence.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Walking to school is a good example of our increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

• largely: Significantly, however, the pupils that took part in this study were largely sedentary, living on established plots or in housing.

• relatively: All this relatively sedentary activity gave me plenty of time to look around me, of course!

• mainly: For the last five years has your lifestyle been mainly sedentary?

• previously: This is enough exercise to more than halve premature death rates in previously sedentary people.

• very: Even the very sedentary dipper will descend its mountain stream to escape the worst frosts.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: A third collection of rats remained sedentary during the training period.

• become: The nymphs can move about but later they lose their legs & become sedentary.

• class: Physical Activity Within the definitions used in the survey, 25 % of people aged 16 and over can be classed as sedentary.