Physical Activity
Physical Activity
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Play
Leisure & Recreation
Active leisure
Outdoor & adventurous activities
Physical Education
Sport
Play
• An activity undertaken purely for enjoyment or
amusement and has no other objective
• Usually associated with children but can be
adults as well
• What is the difference between adults and
children at play?
• What can be achieved through play?
Spontaneous
Few/changea
ble rules
Childlike
Fit to the
environment
PLAY
Flexible
Intrinsic
value
Fun
Little
Organisation
Leisure
• Leisure - Time during which you have no
obligations to work or family and are free to
engage in self-directed and chosen activities
• Active Leisure – being physically active in leisure
time
• 19th C – only rich and privileged had leisure time
• Now, most people will have some amount of free
time depending on commitments and
responsibilities
Free-time
Enjoyment
Leisure
Relaxation
Freely
chosen
activities
Physically
active
Sporadic
Active
leisure
Enjoyment
Not always
sportbased
Flexible
Recreation
• Recreation - Engaged in activities that refresh,
relax or enable the recreation of oneself after
the rigours of work or day-to-day life
• Physical Recreation - Engaged in physical
activities that refresh, relax or enable the
recreation of oneself after the rigours of work
or day-to-day life
Refresh mind
& body
Activities for
selffulfillment
Recreation
Creativity
Recuperating
& recovering
from stress