ABSTRACT
Leisure is defined as: uncoerced activity engaged in during free time, which people want to do and, in either a satisfying or a fulfilling way, use their abilities and resources to succeed at this. Serious leisure has become the benchmark from which analyses of casual and project-based leisure have often been undertaken. In leisure projects, core activities are intense, though limited in time and moderate in complexity, as seen in the actions of serving as scorekeeper during an amateur sports tournament or serving as museum guide during a special exhibition of artifacts. Starting with Aristotle, scholars, clergy, and journalists, among other categories of humankind, have been weighing in with their definitions of leisure. Recreational specialization and serious leisure have in common that they are complex leisure activity: activity requiring some combination of substantial skill, knowledge, and experience to carry out in a fulfilling way its many different and highly interrelated facets.
