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

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

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 social and recreative side of rural life must be developed.

From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by Fiske, George Walter

These, fortunately, are supplemented by the eager alertness essential to the discovery and capture of game well worth the effort, and by the recreative and self-satisfying complacency of more or less skillful shooting.

From Fishing and Shooting Sketches by Cleveland, Grover