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Recreation

Recreation or fun is the expenditure of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body

Body

With regard to organism, a body is the integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death....
or mind

Mind

Mind refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, free will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes....
. While leisure

Leisure

Leisure or free time, is a period of time spent out of employment and essential domestic activity. It is also the period of recreational and discretionary time before or after compulsory activities such as eating and sleeping, employment or running a business, education and doing homework, household chores, and day-to-day Stress ....
is more likely a form of entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games....
or rest, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner. As people in the world's wealthier regions lead increasingly sedentary life style

Sedentary lifestyle

Sedentary lifestyle is a medical terminology neologism used to denote a type of lifestyle most commonly found in modern cultures, characterized by sitting or remaining inactive for most of the day....
s, the need for recreation has increased. The rise of so called active vacation

Active vacation

An active vacation is a vacation that is built around some Exercise or set of physical activities. Examples include hiking, cycling, and Mountaineering vacations....
s exemplifies this.

w individuals view recreation as largely non-productive, even trivial.

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Recreation or fun is the expenditure of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body

Body

With regard to organism, a body is the integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death....
or mind

Mind

Leisure

Entertainment

Sedentary lifestyle

Active vacation

An active vacation is a vacation that is built around some Exercise or set of physical activities. Examples include hiking, cycling, and Mountaineering vacations....
s exemplifies this.

Health

A few individuals view recreation as largely non-productive, even trivial. Excessive recreation is not considered healthy, and may be labeled as escapism

Escapism

Escapism is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant aspects of Everyday life. It can also be used as a term to define the actions people take to try to help relieve feelings of Depression or general sadness....
. However, research has shown that recreation contributes to satisfaction, and that the stress management

Stress management

Stress management is the amelioration of Stress , especially chronic stress....
aspects of it contribute to quality of life, health and wellness, happiness, and that the use of recreation as a diversion may have clinical applications to individuals with chronic pain and other health impairments. In some cultures and religions, recreation is encouraged on certain days and discouraged on others. For example, in Judaism

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
, the Shabbat

Shabbat

Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
is a day for recreation,study and relaxation; some Christian

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
churches use the Sabbath. However, others interpret the Sabbath to be a day of worship, in lieu of recreation.

Recreation is one (not the only) kind of stress management

Stress management

Stress management is the amelioration of Stress , especially chronic stress....
. According to research cited in Time magazine

Time (magazine)

Time is a weekly United States newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition is published from London....
, stress is a major factor in many of the leading causes of death in the United States.

Examples

Computer games
Cycling
Cycling

Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....
Dancing
Drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
Eating and drinking
Food and Drink

Food and Drink was a long-running United Kingdom television series on BBC Two during the 1980s and 90s. It was presented by Chris Kelly and chef Michael Barry with wine experts Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke....
Hobbies
Hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
and fishing
Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
Kite flying
Music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....

Martial arts

Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat....

Partying

Pet

PET

The term pet typically refers to a pet.PET may also refer to:...
ownership

Reading a book

Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side....

Recreational drug use

Sexuality

Sexuality may refer to:*Sexuality or sex*Sexuality or gender identity*Sexuality or sexual orientation*Animal sexuality or animal sexual behaviour...
and Dating

Sledding

Sledding is a common activity in wintry areas, similar to sliding, but in a prone or seated position requiring a device or vehicle generically known as a "sled"....

Shopping

Shopping is the examining of goods or Service from retailers with intent to Trade at that time. Shopping is the activity of selection and/or purchase....

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....

Sports and exercise

Travel

Travel is the change in Location of people on a trip through the means of transport from one location to another. Travel is most commonly for recreation , for business trip or for commuting; but may be for numerous other reasons, such as migration, fleeing war, etc....
and tourism

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...

Texting

Using the internet

Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....

Video games

Visiting an amusement park

Amusement park

Amusement park is the generic term for a collection of Amusement ride and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people....

Watching movies

Yoga

Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in both Buddhism and Hinduism....

Painting

In recent years, more exciting forms of recreation have received more attention, such as skiing

Skiing

Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....
, snowboarding

Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding....
, bungee jumping

Bungee jumping

Bungee jumping is an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a Hot air balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to hover over one spot o...
, sky diving, hang gliding

Hang gliding

Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminum or composite material frame with a fabric wing....
, paintball

Paintball

Paintball is a game in which players eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint , usually shot from a carbon dioxide or compressed-gas powered paintball gun ....
, rock climbing

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural Rock formations or man-made climbing wall with the goal of reaching the Summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route....
, backpacking

Backpacking (wilderness)

Backpacking combines hiking and Camping in a single trip. A backpacker hikes into the backcountry to spend one or more nights there, and carries supplies and equipment to satisfy sleeping and eating needs....
, canyoning

Canyoning

Canyoning is traveling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and/or swimming....
, caving

Caving

Caving ? also known as spelunking ? is the recreational sport of exploring caves. In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment....
, BASE jumping

BASE jumping

BASE jumping is an activity that employs a parachute or the sequenced use of a wingsuit and parachute to jump from fixed objects--with the parachute unopened at the jump ....
, adventure tourism and motor sport.

Recreation

Health

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