How to unhide/show the ‘Activity Bar’ on Visual Studio Code?

Go to View=>Appearance=>Show Activity Bar
as of latest version

Version: 1.41.0
Date: 2019-12-11T18:32:17.711Z
Electron: 6.1.5
Chrome: 76.0.3809.146
Node.js: 12.4.0
V8: 7.6.303.31-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 4.15.0-72-generic snap