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Recreation and Sports

Recreation and sports are activities done by people to relax, to compete and generally, to have fun. Recreation is the more general term of the two.

Recreation

The term recreation is composed of the prefix “re” which means again and the root noun “creation” which denotes the process of creating or making. Thus, literally, recreation is “the process of making or creating again.” In context, recreation can be taken to mean making oneself new again, to refresh oneself. Furthermore, it can mean to relax and to regenerate energy.

Recreation can be defined as the process of freeing one's mind from cares and worries. It encompasses the activities that are not for economic gain or profit. Recreation is engaging in activities that are not compulsory or required. It is done for simple and pure enjoyment of the activity.

Recreational activities include reading; shopping; walking and trekking; chatting and conversing with others face to face, through the phone or through the internet; participation in and watching of sports activities; attending comedy shows, plays, musicals, opera, dance shows; dining and eating; watching TV and going to the cinemas; sex; and even use of drugs.

Recreation is influenced by available time. Usually for salaried and employed personnel who have regular hours, the weekends is the time allotted for recreation. It can also be during holidays and vacation time. Students, on the other hand, have to prioritize studying so they can engage in recreation during summer breaks, semester breaks, gap years, holidays and also weekends and days when they have no school. Business owners engage in recreation when their businesses permit, usually when their businesses are not open to customers or when their part of the work is done.

Recreation is also influenced by the age of the person involved. Younger people like and are capable of doing more active forms of recreation. They are thus fond of kayaking, rafting, bungee jumping, mountain climbing, surfing, diving, snorkeling, and other sports and rigorous activities. Older people tend to lean towards more sedate activities like fishing, lounging in the house or by the pool or beach, shopping, reading, walking, and other less rigorous occupations. Of course, this is not to say that older people cannot and do not participate in the more active recreational activities. This is not also to say that younger people do not enjoy reading, fishing and some such more passive recreation.

Sports

Sports is the term that denotes all activities that require physical ability and skills to participate in. Usually, there is implicit or explicit competition in sports. Sports is one of the many ways a person can choose to spend his recreation time in.

Sports activities include swimming, basketball, baseball, soccer or football, diving, running, and many more. Sports is deemed to be for the physically fit and active because it usually involves rigorous training, practice and concentration, and it demands enormous amounts of strength and stamina. But it is not mainly for participants; some people are devoted spectators of some sports.