Leisure
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Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activitie
Public parks were initially set aside for leisure, recreation and sport.
A man relaxing on a couch
Leisure time swimming at an oasis
GI Card Game, watercolor by James Pollock, U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Artists Team IV (CAT IV 1967). During the Vietnam War soldiers waiting to go on patrol would sometimes spend their leisure time playing cards. Courtesy National Museum of the United States Army.
Recreation
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Recreation is an activity of leisure, often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun". The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biolog
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…comparable over time and place. Leisure studies and sociology of leisure are the academic disciplines concerned with the study and analysis of leisure. Recreation differs from leisure in that it is a purposeful activity that includes the experience of leisure in activity contexts. Economists consider that leisure…
Surfing, a form of recreation
Pieter Bruegel Children's Games (1560)
Mennonite woman dressmaking (1942)
Ancient Egyptian gaming board inscribed for Amenhotep III with separate sliding drawer, from 1390 to 1353 BC, made of glazed faience, dimensions: 5.5 × 7.7 × 21 cm, in the Brooklyn Museum (New York City)