recreative

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His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plumping for a thoroughly progressive program, the commission proposed that highschool studies be built around five cores of human activity�language arts; social relations; home and vocational arts; creative and recreative arts; nature, mathematics and science.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most fruitful road to Joseph seems to be, as the Rev. Edington noted, one combining "good, serious Bible study and some recreative imagination."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was many centuries before prose became recognized as the proper vehicle for instruction, and at a very early date verse was used as well for educational and moral as for recreative and artistic purposes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The task of dealing with newcomers in the country community is educational, financial and recreative.

From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Wilson, Warren H. (Warren Hugh)