... Oxford Dictionary By Oxford University Press Active recreation This is when an individual personally participate in an activity * Playing sport (e.g. football, cricket, netball) * Playing a musical instrument * Gardening and crafts and other hobbies * Rambling Active recreation is particularly stimulating and rewarding. This aspect of physical exercise and the practice of physical skills is well recognised today. There are many accounts of top class athletes of heightened awareness and the deadening of pain when performing to their limits, while modern research shows that activity stimulates a variety of body chemicals that affect our brains, and particularly the emotional response of pleasure or fear. Passive recreation This when an individual receives or consumes entertainment by other people or activities * Watching television (including watching sport) * Listening to music * Reading * Playing computer games * Going to a restaurant or pub Passive recreation also takes up ...

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