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- See also changes related to Recreation, or pages that link to Recreation or to this page or whose text contains "Recreation".
Contributors: see also the Citizendium Recreation Workgroups
Parent topics
- Culture [r]: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2002) defined culture as "... the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or a social group..." that "encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs". [e]
Subtopics
Major areas
- Games [r]: A structured or semi-structured contrived activity, primarily undertaken for enjoyment or, sometimes, practice. [e]
- Hobbies [r]: An "activity done regularly for pleasure" (OED); may include pastime, avocation, para-profession or part-time occupation. [e]
- Sports [r]: Activity that involves skill and physical exertion, and is governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. [e]
- Boys and girls club: Add brief definition or description
- Intramural sports: Add brief definition or description
- Little league: Add brief definition or description
- Play (activity): Add brief definition or description
- Senior center: Add brief definition or description
- Social club: Add brief definition or description
Forty hour week: A widespread, near-universal standard in industrialized countries for defining a working week that arose in the early 20th century, as labor organizations and individual workers pressed for higher wages and greater leisure. The 40-hour work week also created the institution of the weekend. Many variations of the standard 40-hour week have also emerged, including the 37-hour week, the four-day week, and many others. [e]
- Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen [r]: A civil servant, who has specialized in managing fisheries, who was the first woman to direct the Pacific Islands Forum Fishery Agency [e]
- Gay marketing [r]: Marketing activities which are primarily designed to understand and fulfill the consumer needs of lesbians and gay men. [e]
- Cricket from 1601 to 1620 [r]: Period in the early history of cricket. [e]
- Wordplay [r]: Literary technique in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work. [e]