Recreation

Recreation is an activity or pastime that promotes refreshment of one’s mind or body after work through activities that amuse or stimulates play. It renews health and spirit by enjoyment and relaxation. One needs to find activities for recreation.

Recreational activities are fun which are often done for enjoyment, pleasure or amusement. Recreation implies to participate in different activities to be healthy while having a refreshing mind and body.

Recreation, a Latin term has first been used in English in the late 14thcentury in the sense of curing a sick person”. Humans spend their time doing activities of daily work, sleep or performing social duties. Leisure is the time they need which is a prerequisite of recreation. With decreased hours spent for physical and economical survey, yet others argue that time pressure has increased for modern people as they are committed  to too many tasks  and leisure  has increased with longevity.

The role of recreation has also increases due to affluence, population trends, and increased commercialization of recreational offerings.  While leisure is perceived as just “spare time “, on the other hand, it is a force that allows individuals to consider and reflect on the values and realities that they have missed in the activities of daily life, thus being an essential element of personal development and civilization.

Recreation is generally substituted for play, which is usually the term for children's recreational activity. In ancient times, it was believed that work was supported by recreation , which is useful to recharge the battery so that work performance is improved.

Recreation is a necessity for human life which varies according to one’s surrounding. Recreational activities can be communal or solitary, active or passive, outdoors or indoors, healthy or harmful, and useful for society or detrimental. A few examples of recreation may be – reading, writing, playing, listening to music, hunting, hobbies, sports, studying, travel or watching movies. Public space such as parks and beaches are popular recreational places.

Many public institutions organize recreational activities. Recreation has many health benefits, one of which is recreational therapy.