Leisure time Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time

Leisure time

Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. Situationist International proposes that leisure does not evolve from free time, and free-time is an illusory concept that is rarely fully "free"; economic and social forces appropriate free time from the individual and sell it back to them as the commodity known as "leisure". Certainly most people's leisure activities are not a completely free choice and may be constrained by social pressures. For example, people may be feel the need to spend time gardening to keep up with their neighbor's gardens or go to a party because of social pressures.