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==Etymology==

==Etymology==

[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] leiser, from Anglo-French leisir,  from leisir to be permitted, from [[Latin]] licēre.

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] leiser, from Anglo-French leisir,  from leisir to be permitted, from [[Latin]] licēre.

*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]

*Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]

[[Greek]] ''skholē'' ‘leisure (see [[scholar]])

[[Greek]] ''skholē'' ‘leisure (see [[scholar]])

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1 : [[freedom]] provided by the cessation of [[activities]]; especially : time free from [[work]] or [[duties]]

*1 : [[freedom]] provided by the cessation of [[activities]]; especially : time free from [[work]] or [[duties]]

*2 : ease, leisureliness

*2 : ease, leisureliness

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Leisure''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Leisure '''''this link'''''].</center>

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Leisure''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Leisure '''''this link'''''].</center>

==Description==

==Description==

'''Leisure''' or free [[time]], is a period of time spent out of [[work]] and [[essential]] [[domestic]] [[activity]]. It is also the period of recreational and discretionary time before or after compulsory activities such as eating and [[sleep]]ing, going to [[work]] or running a [[business]], attending school and doing homework, household chores, and day-to-day [[stress]]. The distinction between leisure and compulsory activities is loosely applied, i.e. people sometimes do [[work]]-oriented tasks for [[pleasure]] as well as for long-term [[utility]]. Distinction may also arise between free time and leisure. For example, [[criticism]] of consumer [[capitalism]] by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International Situationist International] maintains that free time is [[illusory]] and rarely free and instead, [[economic]] and social [[forces]] appropriate it from the [[individual]] and sell it back to him as a [[Thing|commodity]] in the [[form]] of leisure. Leisure [[studies]] is the [[academic]] [[discipline]] concerned with the [[study]] and [[analysis]] of leisure.

'''Leisure''' or free [[time]], is a period of time spent out of [[work]] and [[essential]] [[domestic]] [[activity]]. It is also the period of recreational and discretionary time before or after compulsory activities such as eating and [[sleep]]ing, going to [[work]] or running a [[business]], attending school and doing homework, household chores, and day-to-day [[stress]]. The distinction between leisure and compulsory activities is loosely applied, i.e. people sometimes do [[work]]-oriented tasks for [[pleasure]] as well as for long-term [[utility]]. Distinction may also arise between free time and leisure. For example, [[criticism]] of consumer [[capitalism]] by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International Situationist International] maintains that free time is [[illusory]] and rarely free and instead, [[economic]] and social [[forces]] appropriate it from the [[individual]] and sell it back to him as a [[Thing|commodity]] in the [[form]] of leisure. Leisure [[studies]] is the [[academic]] [[discipline]] concerned with the [[study]] and [[analysis]] of leisure.

The notions of leisure and leisure time are thought to have emerged in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era Victorian] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom Britain] in the late nineteenth century, late in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eighteen hours per day, with only Sundays off work. By the 1870s though, more [[efficient]] [[machinery]] and the emergence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions trade unions] resulted in decreases in working hours per day, and allowed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialist industrialists] to give their workers Saturdays as well as Sundays off [[work]].

The notions of leisure and leisure time are thought to have emerged in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era Victorian] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom Britain] in the late nineteenth century, late in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eighteen hours per day, with only Sundays off work. By the 1870s though, more [[efficient]] [[machinery]] and the emergence of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions trade unions] resulted in decreases in working hours per day, and allowed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialist industrialists] to give their workers Saturdays as well as Sundays off [[work]].

Affordable and reliable transport in the form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways railways] allowed urban workers to [[travel]] on their days off, with the first package holidays to seaside resorts appearing in the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America]. As workers [[channeled]] their wages into leisure [[activities]], the modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_industry entertainment industry] (beginning with the [[film]] industry) emerged in industrialized nations, catering to entertain workers on their days off. This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era Victorian] [[concept]]—the weekend—heralded the beginning of leisure time as it is known today.

Affordable and reliable transport in the form of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways railways] allowed urban workers to [[travel]] on their days off, with the first package holidays to seaside resorts appearing in the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America]. As workers [[channeled]] their wages into leisure [[activities]], the modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_industry entertainment industry] (beginning with the [[film]] industry) emerged in industrialized nations, catering to entertain workers on their days off. This [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era Victorian] [[concept]]—the weekend—heralded the beginning of leisure time as it is known today.

==See also==

==See also==

*'''''[[Idle]]'''''

*'''''[[Idle]]'''''

[[Category: Sociology]]

[[Category: Sociology]]