Literary notes about recreation (AI summary)
The term "recreation" in literature is used to denote both physical and mental refreshment, serving as a counterbalance to the demands of work, duty, or study. In some contexts it is portrayed as a deliberate respite that revitalizes the mind and body—where one might "refresh, renew, rejuvenate yourself by play and pleasant recreation" ([1]) or even find intellectual reprieve that “return[s] to you better fitted for thought” ([2]). At other times, authors illustrate recreation as that which provides delight and personal pleasure: whether it is as varied as twiddling thumbs in idle speculation ([3]) or finding solace in creative pursuits like writing ([4]). Even as it sometimes adopts a lighter, almost trivial role in social settings—being a reason to temporarily leave the everyday grind ([5])—it consistently reflects an indispensable element of human experience and balance, allowing characters and individuals to momentarily step away from their routine obligations ([6], [7]).
- Refresh, renew, rejuvenate yourself by play and pleasant recreation.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - Thus ought recreation sometimes to be given to the mind, that it may return to you better fitted for thought.
— from The Fables of Phædrus by Phaedrus - For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to "write stories."
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - He presently grew lonesome, and started out for recreation.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain - Recreation, as the word indicates, is recuperation of energy.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Even this treatise—as its title shows—is above all a recreation, a ray of sunshine, a leap sideways of a psychologist in his leisure moments.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist by Nietzsche
