Leisure
noun
Free time when you are not working or doing other duties.
She spends her leisure time reading books.
Often appears as...
- leisure time
- leisure activities
adjective
Relating to activities that are done for enjoyment during free time.
He wore his leisure suit to the party.
Often appears as...
- leisure activity
- leisure centre
noun
Lack of hurry or haste.
We can leave at our leisure.
Often appears as...
- at your leisure
- take your leisure
noun
Free time when you are not working or doing other duties.
She spends her leisure time reading books.
Often appears as...
- leisure time
- leisure activities
adjective
Relating to activities that are done for enjoyment during free time.
He wore his leisure suit to the party.
Often appears as...
- leisure activity
- leisure centre
noun
Lack of hurry or haste.
We can leave at our leisure.
Often appears as...
- at your leisure
- take your leisure
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Non-Work Context
Leisure assumes non-working scenarios, so don't use it to describe pauses in work.
I’m looking forward to the weekend for some much-needed leisure.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Choice
"Leisure time" is often intentional and chosen personally, not just free time.
During my leisure time, I prefer to write poetry.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
Leisure has a positive feeling, evoking relaxation and pleasure, rather than boredom.
After months of hard work, their vacation was full of leisure.
Pro Tip 1/3Non-Work Context
Leisure assumes non-working scenarios, so don't use it to describe pauses in work.
I’m looking forward to the weekend for some much-needed leisure.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Choice
"Leisure time" is often intentional and chosen personally, not just free time.
During my leisure time, I prefer to write poetry.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
Leisure has a positive feeling, evoking relaxation and pleasure, rather than boredom.
After months of hard work, their vacation was full of leisure.
Pro Tip 1/3Non-Work Context
Leisure assumes non-working scenarios, so don't use it to describe pauses in work.
I’m looking forward to the weekend for some much-needed leisure.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Choice
"Leisure time" is often intentional and chosen personally, not just free time.
During my leisure time, I prefer to write poetry.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
Leisure has a positive feeling, evoking relaxation and pleasure, rather than boredom.
After months of hard work, their vacation was full of leisure.
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What is economic value,...
Let me explain what I mean by that. Objective, in the way I just said. Subjective, in the sense that all the attention went to how individuals of different sorts make their decisions. OK, so workers are maximizing their choices of leisure versus work. Consumers are maximizing their so-called utility, which is a proxy for happiness,
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What would happen if we...
Subjectively, they remember a life of leisure. This, again, is you. You start and you end. This could be you if at the start of party, you took a drug that meant you would not remember that party ever after that day. Some people do this, I'm told. Toward the end of the party,
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How to make discoveries...
can deconstruct the attributes of a vacation activities like golf and tennis interests like architecture and history and then when are you going to go what do you want to spend are there ways of deconstructing leisure travel to figure out what a good trip for you might be
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What is obesity? - Mia...
Then, technological advances coupled with public health measures resulted in the betterment of the quantity, quality, and variety of food. Sustained abundance of good food enabled a healthier population to boom economically. Output increased, and with it, leisure time
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Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
wanted to capture the kind of the cutting edge of climbing what was happening there and then kind of what the lifestyle was and I remember when I spent time there we are always laughs we like yeah there's you know a leisure class at both
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On positive psychology -...
life this is a life in which you have as much positive emotion as you possibly can and the skills to amplify it the second is a life of engagement a life in your work your parenting your love your leisure time stops for you that's what
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Is the world getting...
Do all of these gains in health, wealth, safety, knowledge and leisure make us any happier? The answer is yes. In 86 percent of the world's countries, happiness has increased in recent decades. Well, I hope to have convinced you
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The new era of positive...
This is a life in which you have as much positive emotion as you possibly can, and the skills to amplify it. The second is a life of a life in your work, your parenting, your love, your leisure; time stops for you.
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Sir David Attenborough...
into the tree branches there they will take up their adult life of leisure well camouflaged solidly chewing leaves giving your offspring a good start in
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Life of Insects PIPE...
the tree branches there they will take up their adult life of leisure well camouflaged stolid the chirring leaves giving your offspring a good start in
Video examples
What is economic value,...
Let me explain what I mean by that. Objective, in the way I just said. Subjective, in the sense that all the attention went to how individuals of different sorts make their decisions. OK, so workers are maximizing their choices of leisure versus work. Consumers are maximizing their so-called utility, which is a proxy for happiness,
Video examples
What would happen if we...
Subjectively, they remember a life of leisure. This, again, is you. You start and you end. This could be you if at the start of party, you took a drug that meant you would not remember that party ever after that day. Some people do this, I'm told. Toward the end of the party,
Video examples
How to make discoveries...
can deconstruct the attributes of a vacation activities like golf and tennis interests like architecture and history and then when are you going to go what do you want to spend are there ways of deconstructing leisure travel to figure out what a good trip for you might be
Video examples
What is obesity? - Mia...
Then, technological advances coupled with public health measures resulted in the betterment of the quantity, quality, and variety of food. Sustained abundance of good food enabled a healthier population to boom economically. Output increased, and with it, leisure time
Video examples
Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
wanted to capture the kind of the cutting edge of climbing what was happening there and then kind of what the lifestyle was and I remember when I spent time there we are always laughs we like yeah there's you know a leisure class at both
Video examples
On positive psychology -...
life this is a life in which you have as much positive emotion as you possibly can and the skills to amplify it the second is a life of engagement a life in your work your parenting your love your leisure time stops for you that's what
Video examples
Is the world getting...
Do all of these gains in health, wealth, safety, knowledge and leisure make us any happier? The answer is yes. In 86 percent of the world's countries, happiness has increased in recent decades. Well, I hope to have convinced you
Video examples
The new era of positive...
This is a life in which you have as much positive emotion as you possibly can, and the skills to amplify it. The second is a life of a life in your work, your parenting, your love, your leisure; time stops for you.
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
into the tree branches there they will take up their adult life of leisure well camouflaged solidly chewing leaves giving your offspring a good start in
Video examples
Life of Insects PIPE...
the tree branches there they will take up their adult life of leisure well camouflaged stolid the chirring leaves giving your offspring a good start in
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Emily Oster
American Economist
Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
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Kelly Sue DeConnick
American Writer
Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Jensen Huang
Taiwanese Businessman
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. When you combine it with all of the aspects of entertainment and leisure, going to movies or traveling or going to restaurants, staying in a hotel, skiing, it's huge.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
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Peter Diamandis
American Businessman
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
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Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Zhang Yimou
Chinese Director
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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Jack Nicholson
American Actor
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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Natalie Clifford Barney
American Author
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Quote examples
Emily Oster
American Economist
Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
Quote examples
Kelly Sue DeConnick
American Writer
Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story.
Quote examples
Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Quote examples
Jensen Huang
Taiwanese Businessman
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. When you combine it with all of the aspects of entertainment and leisure, going to movies or traveling or going to restaurants, staying in a hotel, skiing, it's huge.
Quote examples
Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Quote examples
Peter Diamandis
American Businessman
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
Quote examples
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Quote examples
Zhang Yimou
Chinese Director
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Quote examples
Jack Nicholson
American Actor
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
Quote examples
Natalie Clifford Barney
American Author
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Example 1 of 10
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