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Walking is successively and sometimes simultaneously a means of transport and a leisure activity. In so far as the way urban actors perceive pedestrian practices can have consequences on the public policies that are devoted to it, it is useful to gain insight on the articulation of these two aspects. This article aims at a better knowledge of the proportion of walking trips in urban environment that are done for leisure and of the influence of the spatial and temporal context of the trip on the prevalence of the two logics. Using the 2010 Transport Survey of the Parisian Region, we show that, unlike utilitarian pedestrian practices, leisure practices are not influenced by the density of the urban setting, but increase when time-use constraints decrease. However, four-fifths of pedestrian journeys are utilitarian, which calls for a rethinking of the importance given to recreational pedestrian practices in policies which promote walking.