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

Agree with your wife on a “fun-money” budget — a pot of money you can dip tino for leisure activities without regret, rumination or recrimination.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 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

Like me, Hugh was single, which came as no great surprise, considering that he spent his leisure time rolling out dough and crying to George Jones albums.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“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

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

At Ferrara, in the wide leisures of her brother’s court, Tasso, Stundenlang, as Gœthe wrote, sat with her.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

The generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest.

From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell