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Encyclopedia > Pastime index

This subindex of main Wikipedia table of contents and Main Page. Culture | Geography | History | Life | Mathematics | Science | Society | Technology ...


Recreation and Leisure table of contents. Tigers playing in the water Recreation is the employment of time in a non-profitable way, in many ways also a refreshment of ones body or mind. ... There is also an album by Blur called Leisure. ...

See also: Personal life, Fine arts, Religion. The weekend is a part of the week lasting one or two days in which most paid workers do not work. ... In the United States, a holiday is a day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity. ... Entertainment is an amusement or diversion intended to hold the attention of an audience or its participants. ... These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which wed like to have articles soon. ... This article is about pastimes. ... This is a list of hobbies. ... Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized sound, though definitions may vary. ... An American family watching television in the 1950s. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... A Show is a Television program. ... Quality time is the time someone spends with the people they love and respect, especially with those towards whom they feel some sort of obligation. ... Sleeping girl Sleep is the fundamental anabolic process common to all life forms, plant and animal. ... Dreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. ... A party is a social gathering intended primarily for celebration and recreation. ... A typical restaurant in uptown Manhattan A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. ... A Street Cafe, Jerusalem, Henry Fenn (1838- ): steel engraving in Picturesque Palestine, ca 1875 A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ... A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British cultural heritage. ... Categories: Stub ... A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British cultural heritage. ... Blaufränkisch is a variety of wine grape that is used to produce dry, red wines which are typically low in tannin and may exhibit a pronounced spicy character. ... A sport consists of a normal physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of these. ... The following is a list of sports, divided by category. ... This article discusses humour in terms of comedy and laughter. ... A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ... Meditation usually refers to a state in which the body is consciously relaxed and the mind is allowed to become calm and focused. ... Prayer is an effort to communicate with a God, or to some deity or deities, either to offer praise to the deity, to make a request of the deity, or simply to express ones thoughts and emotions to the deity. ... In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with ones own hands and skill. ... For the chosen plaintext attack used by the British during World War II, see gardening (cryptanalysis). ... Personal life main subtopics Childbirth, Childhood, Environment Education, School, University Relationship, Family, Community Communication, Linguistics, Speech Home, Home computer, Small appliance, Food, Consumer electronics Health, Medicine, Sports Car, Driving, Personal cars, Career, Employment, Politics For Entertainment etc, see Pastime index. ... Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic. ... Religion, a term sometimes used interchangeably with faith, is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices and institutions associated with such belief. ...

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