recreational
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Sabalenka didn’t appear particularly interested in policing what New Yorkers do in their spare time as recreational use is legal in the state.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Orlando also ranked high in terms of recreational activities for retirees, coming in second for recreation overall with a high number of music venues, fishing facilities, art galleries and adult volunteer activities.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Like the authorities, recreational boaters on the lake prefer to point the finger elsewhere.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The professionalization of youth sports—the incursion of for-profit companies strip-mining American childhood—hasn’t only wiped out recreational sports, it’s created a pernicious money culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Princeton boys, though, found it inconvenient to row among the coal barges and recreational vessels that also made use of the canal, so they got Andrew Carnegie to build them a private lake.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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