LSR 1100 Lecture 4: LSR1100 Lecture 4: LSR 1100 lecture 4: Recreation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Leisure Studies
• Course: LSR 1100
• Professor: George Karlis

Document Summary

Recreation is activity one enters during his or her leisure time for the satisfaction derived from the experience - sessoms, meyer and brightbill (1975) Activity that tends to be structured, in order to be recreation it must be a satisfying experience . Recreation is an activity pursued during free time, either individual or collective that is free and pleasurable having its own immediate appeal not impaled by a delayed reward beyond itself - Recreation is a worthwhile socially accepted leisure experience that provides immediate and inherent to the individual who voluntarily participates in an activity - hutchinson. Recreation is activity that rests humans from works often by giving them a change [distraction, diversion] restores and recreates them for work. When adults play as they do of course with persons things and symbols they play for recreation - degrazia. Displayed is the activity that is recreation, associates play and closely linked to recreation.