Physical Activity Physical Activity Play Leisure Recreation Active

Physical Activity

Physical Activity • • • Play Leisure & Recreation Active leisure Outdoor & adventurous activities Physical Education Sport

Play • An activity undertaken purely for enjoyment or amusement and has no other objective • Usually associated with children but can be adults as well • What is the difference between adults and children at play? • What can be achieved through play?

Spontaneous Few/changea ble rules Childlike Fit to the environment PLAY Flexible Intrinsic value Fun Little Organisation

Leisure • Leisure - Time during which you have no obligations to work or family and are free to engage in self-directed and chosen activities • Active Leisure – being physically active in leisure time • 19 th C – only rich and privileged had leisure time • Now, most people will have some amount of free time depending on commitments and responsibilities

Free-time Enjoyment Leisure Relaxation Freely chosen activities

Physically active Not always sportbased Sporadic Active leisure Enjoyment Flexible

Recreation • Recreation - Engaged in activities that refresh, relax or enable the recreation of oneself after the rigours of work or day-to-day life • Physical Recreation - Engaged in physical activities that refresh, relax or enable the recreation of oneself after the rigours of work or day-to-day life

Refresh mind & body Activities for selffulfillment Recreation Creativity Recuperating & recovering from stress