ABSTRACT
Leisure is an ancient idea and ideal. It has survived opposition, élitism, greed, war and revolution. During its chequered history it has been thought of in ways as different as ‘a quality of life reflecting the highest ideals’ to ‘the worst evil-the devil incarnate’. Leisure has been defined, prosaically, as ‘blocks of time’ and philosophically as a ‘way of life’. Leisure is not time, but the use of time; the personal and social orientations of the use and the satisfactions it brings appear to be what make an activity ‘leisure’.
