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Home Activities

All 58 home activities activities in the Compendium, ranked by energy cost. The hardest is hunting - hiking with hunting gear at 698 kcal an hour; the middle of the pack sits near 221.

Every home activities activity ranked by energy cost, for a 70 kg adult. JUL 2026
#	Activity	MET	30 min	1 hour
1	Hunting - hiking with hunting gear	9.5	349	698
2	Moving household items upstairs	9	331	662
3	Moving	6.25	230	459
4	Moving furniture	5.8	213	426
5	Carrying groceries upstairs	5.3	195	390
6	Maple syruping/sugar bushing	5	184	368
7	Organizing a room	4.8	176	353
8	Walking/running, playing with child	4.65	171	342
9	Butchering animals	4.5	165	331
10	Polishing floors	4.5	165	331
11	Tanning hides	4	147	294
12	Walking	4	147	294
13	Standing, packing/unpacking boxes	3.8	140	279
14	carrying groceries	3.5	129	257
15	Cleaning heavy or major	3.5	129	257
16	Scrubbing floors	3.5	129	257
17	Activities in a boat	3.3	121	243
18	Cleaning	3.3	121	243
19	Cleaning windows	3.3	121	243
20	Food shopping with or without a grocery cart…	3.3	121	243
21	Hunting birds	3.3	121	243
22	Hunting pigs	3.3	121	243
23	Kitchen activity	3.3	121	243
24	Multiple household tasks all at once	3.3	121	243
25	Cooking Indian bread or other food on an…	3	110	221
26	Hunting flying fox	3	110	221
27	Implied walking	3	110	221
28	Making bed	3	110	221
29	Sweeping garage	3	110	221
30	Vacuuming	3	110	221
31	Cooking or food preparation	2.9	107	213
32	Foraging	2.9	107	213
33	Sewing with a machine	2.8	103	206
34	Standing, playing with child	2.8	103	206
35	Walking and carrying small child	2.75	101	202
36	Building a fire inside	2.5	92	184
37	Dusting or polishing furniture	2.5	92	184
38	Feeding household animals	2.5	92	184
39	Mopping	2.5	92	184
40	Pistol shooting or trap shooting	2.5	92	184
41	Putting away groceries	2.5	92	184
42	Rifle exercises	2.4	88	176
43	Cutting and smoking fish	2.3	85	169
44	Non-food shopping	2.3	85	169
45	Serving food	2.3	85	169
46	Sitting, playing with child	2.3	85	169
47	Laundry	2.15	79	158
48	Cooking or food preparation - standing or…	2	74	147
49	Hunting large game from a car	2	74	147
50	Standing, holding child	2	74	147
51	Standing, light effort tasks	2	74	147
52	Trapping game	2	74	147
53	Wash dishes	2	74	147
54	Watering plants	2	74	147
55	Ironing	1.8	66	132
56	Standing in boat	1.5	55	110
57	Knitting	1.3	48	96
58	Sitting in boat	1	37	74

Kilocalories for a 70 kg adult. Click any activity for the full weight and intensity breakdown.

SOURCE·2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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