Paquot, Thierry <br/><br/>
Leisure and Leisure Activities 

 -  2015.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Life in society seems to alternate between “work” and “leisure” as if our very existence were a combination of the two in variable proportions depending on one’s age and the time of year. For example, children have more leisure time than school time, while for adults in mid-career, assuming they are not hit by unemployment, work takes up far more time than leisure, until the proportions are reversed when they retire. In these different cases, leisure time is seen as a differential: it is what is left over after work, necessary sleep and the time taken up by all the “things that have to be done” in our daily lives.