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Recreation

[[Image:Tigers playing in water.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Tigers playing in the water]] Recreation is the employment of time in a non-profitable way, in many ways also a therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. Recreation is often distinguished from leisure. Where ''leisure'' is, or ought to be, restful, ''recreation'' is refreshing and diverting. As people in the world's wealthier regions lead more and more sedentary life styles, the need for recreation has grown. The rise of so called active vacations exemplify this. Recreation, play, and fun are not the preserve of humans; nearly all creatures indulge in this to some extent. Play is essential for the development of skills, the most basic of which are motor skills in young creatures. The weekend is typically a time for recreation, perhaps (in Judeo-Christian and Islam cultures) because the Sabbath falls on the weekend and the Sabbath is "the day of rest." Holidays are also a common time for recreation. Traditionally music and dance serve as recreation in many cultures, as do sports, hobbies, games and tourism. Watching Television and listening to music are common forms of recreation, or rather leisure. Many activities may be functional and/or recreational: *Food and drink *Shopping *Hunting and fishing *Travel *Sexual behavior *Using the Internet *Conversation *Reading a book *Sport *sleeping In recent years, more 'exciting' forms of recreation include: skiing, snowboarding, bungee jumping, sky diving, hang gliding, paint balling, rock climbing, backpacking (wilderness), canyoning, caving, BASE jumping, adventure tourism.
Some people enjoy forms of recreation that are considered morality by others, for example recreational drug use, gambling, nudism and some forms of sex. Also some people believe that there are restrictions in time for certain forms of recreation, e.g. not on Sunday, sabbath or during Ramadan. Since it is viewed as largely non-productive, even trivial, excessive recreation is not considered healthy, and may be labelled as escapism. ==See also== *List of game topics * List of hobbies Recreation Health Personal life fa:تفریحات

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It's in the word's etymology. What are we re-creating when we recreate? -User:69.1.18.14 22:31, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) -------------------------------- awww... it's so obvious. fun isn't obvious, so this can't be fun. ;-) -------------------------------- AISOS (am I stupid or something)? I thought our Islamic friends had Friday as their holy day so including them in the list of people who keep a weekend sabbath seems odd user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 22:20, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Recreation

Recreation is a form of entertainment derived from physical activities, without artificial rules. Related categories: *:Category:Games for entertainment defined by a set of rules *:Category:Hobbies for entertainment that is more sedentary Entertainment

Recreation

I reverted back to having the definition. It may be idiosyncratic, but it seems to be the rule that people use to place articles here (rather than in :Category:Games or :Category:Hobbies). If we remove the definition, how will people know to file which articles where? Does anyone have a better definition? -- User:Hike395 05:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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