leisure

Comparing high-school seniors from the classes of 1976, 1991 and 2006, researchers found that later cohorts valued leisure more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

At the time, he wrote in the station’s community newsletter that he was looking forward to a “new life of leisure and with family and friends.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Previous research has shown that spending leisure time together can benefit couples.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

All sectors show that switching jobs results in higher pay, except for leisure and hospitality.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

His hair was slicked back and he wore, in lieu of his service station uniform, a baby-blue leisure suit.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

“In those days, there weren’t video games or these other leisures kids have nowadays,” Gerard said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2016

To meet the change, Davis sold 100 theaters, wisely followed his customers into new leisures.

From Time Magazine Archive

There lie the tears and the sighs of lovers, the hours lost in pastimes, the leisures of the dull, and the intentions of the lazy.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso

Among the many that mine eyes have seen,   Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed,   Or my affection put to th' smallest teen,   Or any of my leisures ever charmed.

From A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare

The story, a little drama, was, with the tale concerning Nebuchadnezzar, that of Daniel, and other novels quite as strange, evolved long later in the wide leisures of Jerusalem.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus