what is leisure time

1. LEISURE TIME
JAVARI KHATUNA

2. What is leisure time?
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 activities
such as eating and sleeping

3. IMPORTANCE OF LEISURE TIME
The main reason that leisure time is important is that it
gives a person the balance needed to focus on his or her
other, more stressful, daily activities. It is also important
because it has the ability to enhance one's communication
skills and self-esteem. By engaging in group leisure
activities based on shared interests, such as book clubs,
craft clubs or exercise groups, a person broadens his or her
circle of friends. Group activities also can benefit those who
are shy or introverted.

4. BENEFITS OF LEISURE TIME
Mental wellness is an important part of overall health and can
impact our physical well-being. Participating in leisure and
recreation activities can help you better manage stress and
reduce depression. Leisure provides us the chance to find
balance in our life; it also puts us in control of how we are
spending our time, which is an important consideration
because we may feel overwhelmed by obligations. Participating
in leisure activities regularly reduces depression; in fact, just
thinking about past outdoor recreation experiences can
improve mood.

5. Finding balance is also a reason why leisure and
recreation can enhance our quality of life. Physical
recreation, in particular, is associated with improved self-
esteem. In addition, we are more likely to feel satisfied
about our life when we regularly take part in recreation
activities. This has significant implications for our mental
health and, in turn, our physical health.

6. TYPES OF LEISURE
Serious leisure
Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity sufficiently
substantial, interesting, and fulfilling for the participant to find a (leisure) career there acquiring and
expressing a combination of its special skills, knowledge, and experience.
Casual leisure
Casual leisure is an immediately, intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-lived, pleasurable core activity,
requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. It is fundamentally hedonic, pursued for its significant
level of pure enjoyment, or pleasure.
Project-based leisure
Project-based leisure
Project-based leisure is a short-term, moderately complicated, either one-shot or occasional, though
infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time . For example, working on a single Wikipedia
article or building a garden feature.

7. Family leisure
Family leisure is defined as time that parents and children spend together in free time
or recreational activities , and it can be expanded to address intergenerational family
leisure as time that grandparents, parents, and grandchildren spend together in free
time or recreational activities . Leisure can become a central place for the
of emotional closeness and strong family bonds. Contexts such as urban/rural shape
the perspectives, meanings, and experiences of family leisure. For example, leisure
moments are part of work in rural areas, and the rural idyll is enacted by urban
on weekends, but both urban and rural families somehow romanticize rural contexts
ideal spaces for family making (connection to nature, slower and more intimate space,
notion of a caring social fabric.

8. Leisure activities from different countries
Germany
German people have many different hobbies that include
playing outdoor games, skating, boating, cycling, gardening,
singing, playing instruments, dance, pottery, sketching,
and so on. Traveling is another favorite hobby of the German
people. In Germany, there are many fun clubs and societies
where people can continue their hobbies and interests.
Italy
Mountaineering, hiking, windsurfing, snowboarding and
are only some of the most popular leisure activities in Italy.

9. France
French have recently developed a taste for a new range of sporting activities,
such as mountain biking, cross-country skiing, and rock climbing, the most
common forms of recreation in France seem to be nonphysical or relatively
sedentary—talking, reading, eating, going to the cinema, and so on.
America
American people love watching TV , reading, spending time with family and
friends, watching or going to the movies , working out , playing video games ,
walking , running , gardening and so on.

10. China
Chinese people like to spend their free time outdoors as much
possible. Chinese parks are full of people, both young and old,
from dawn to dusk, engaging in various Chinese sports and
leisure activities. Chinese people are very sociable and would
rather spend time with others than alone. The activities they
enjoy in their free time also usually involve some movement,
keeping them more active and healthier than many of their
Western counterparts.

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