Sentence examples for Physical pastime from inspiring English sources

Chaline explores swimming's role in ritual, early trade and manufacturing, warfare, and medicine, before describing its transformation in the early modern period into a leisure activity and a competitive sport the necessary precursors that have made it the most common physical pastime in the developed world.

Couple this with the boom in popularity of non-competitive physical pastimes and 'extreme sports' - skateboarding, surfing, mountaineering, off-road cycling - and you have a fair portrait of today's Australians: fitter than ever, sportier than ever, as rugged and sunburnt as we always were, but just not so focused on beating England at cricket.

Physical mapping and pastime sequencing unra-veled a set of genome rearrangements around psbA gene in "higher" fern lineages [ 8- 10].

The survey included 26 different activities divided into three groups: physical activities; passive pastimes like watching TV; and intellectual activities, which ranged from reading and playing games to doing repairs around the house.

While 61% of the 14-year-olds said that playing sports and other physical activities were their favorite pastimes, for instance, only 23% of the 48-year-olds remembered it that way.

Thirty years ago, chewing qat leaves for their curious effect of physical relaxation and mental stimulation was an occasional pastime.

Another limitation is that we did not have any information about the length of time spent using a computer and reading time, popular pastimes that also require very little physical activity.

Wagner describes McMansions as a particular artifact of economic history, one whose physical form was the product of a new American pastime: flipping houses.

The observation that the level of restriction of sedentary pastimes is negatively associated with after-school physical activity seems counterintuitive but may be a result of reverse causality.

The women Kuczynski interviews for whom cosmetic surgery is both a passion and a pastime are beauty nuns, dedicated to the discipline of personal physical reformation.

Furthermore, physical activity was measured with the subscales home management, work and recreation and pastimes from the SIP.