Since 1982, the year the serious leisure perspective was first set out, the concept of casual
leisure has served mostly as a foil for sharpening understanding of that framework. Yet …

Casual leisure has been defined as immediately, intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-
lived pleasurable activity requiring little or no special training to enjoy it (Stebbins, 1997) …

Following on the intellectual foundation laid by Josef Pieper, Sabastian de Grazia and Max
Kaplan, among others, the term 'serious leisure'made its debut in leisure studies circles in …

There have been many attempts to define leisure. Most follow the practice of common sense
and associate it with'freedom','choice'and'life-satisfaction'. 1 But a moment's reflection shows …

The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct
forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the …

The" Serious Leisure Perspective"(SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us
understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience …

This paper comparatively distinguishes the social meanings of fun, enjoyment, and leisure.
Fun and enjoyment are often unidimensionally collapsed as descriptors of the distinctive …

Serious leisure and casual leisure have served as two contrasting concepts for describing
leisure experiences. The purpose of this article is to reevaluate the traditional dichotomy of …

Twinning leisure with positive experience is the field orthodoxy. There are good reasons for
this. In bidding for scarce resources, leisure professionals need to emphasize the social …

The question of the nature of leisure is a primary, if elusive, question. Quite recently, there
has been some considerable interest in approaching the question by understanding leisure …