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Culture-Relationship Paper Having outlined the nature of leisure in general, the more specific definition of leisure can be described with some exactitude how the concept may and may not be applied. In the first place, leisure should be distinguished from free time, that is, time left free not only from regular employment but also from overtime and from time spent in travel to and from the work place. Free time includes leisure, as well as all the other activities that take place outside the context of gainful employment. The personal needs of eating, sleeping, and caring for one’s health and appearance, as well as familial, social, civic, and religious obligations, must all be attended in one’s free time. Leisure, by contrast, will be described here as having four basic characteristics, two of which can be called negative, since they refer to the absence of certain social obligations, and two positive, since they are defined in terms of personal fulfillment (“Leisure,” Encyclopedia.com). Leisure as time can be in regard to as unobligated or discretionary time. Discretionary time is the time that is not used for obligations and personal maintenance. The view of leisure sees it essentially as time that is free from work or from work-related responsibilities as travel, study or social involvements based on work. It also excludes time devoted to essential life-maintenance activities such as eating, sleeping and personal care. For example, some uses of free time that is not clearly work, or paid for as work may contribute to success at work. A person may read book, articles or journals related to work, attend evening classes related to work competence, invite guests for a party because of work associations or join a club which helps in promoting more business contacts (Mclean & Hurd 17). Leisure as an activity can be defined in which people engage themselves during their free time. This concept of leisure is closely linked to the idea of