The phrase "active leisure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe recreational activities that involve physical movement or engagement, as opposed to passive activities like watching TV.
Example: "Many people find that engaging in active leisure, such as hiking or cycling, helps them to relieve stress and improve their overall well-being."
Alternatives: "physical recreation" or "active recreation".
Avramov and Maskova (2003) describe the concept as a socially and individually designed combination of continuous labour-market participation, active contribution to domestic tasks (including care for others), active participation in community life (e.g. voluntary work) and active leisure activities (through hobbies, sports, travel and creative activities).
Based on surveys of 1,491 kids, Vandewater and her colleagues also found that playing video games didn't take time away from sports or other active leisure activities.
Over all, there were no significant differences between gamers and nongamers in the time they spent with parents and friends, or involved in sports or other active leisure activities, according to the report in July in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Shimitras et. al. [ 17] found that although users of these services spent more time sleeping than community rehabilitation service users, they also spent more time engaged in active leisure activities.
For example, having a good sleep is closely related to the level of energy available for participation [ 57] and, in turn, active leisure, group activities or physical exercises can improve quality of sleep [ 60].
World trends in active leisure time physical activity are less clear.
High levels of social participation have been suggested to be associated with smoking cessation and active leisure-time physical activity but the results concerning alcohol consumption have been inconsistent [ 8].
Children were also encouraged to substitute activities such as watching television, using the computer or playing videogames by more active leisure-time pursuits.
Furthermore, in Brazil the prevalence of perceived personal barriers to engagement in active leisure-time behaviors is more frequent in the female gender [ 20].
Information on PA was collected using five questions (occupation, housework, walking/bicycling, active leisure-time exercise, inactive leisure-time watching TV/reading) about duration and intensity of usual PA in the past year.
About 12,000 people live in Sawgrass, which is only 25 miles from Jacksonville and over the years has become as much a bedroom community for Jacksonville as an active-leisure retirement community.
