Leisure studies is the academic discipline concerned with the study and analysis of leisure.

" " Leisure Suit " came from Lowe's statement to Sierra founder Ken Williams that its early game Softporn Adventure was so dated that it should be wearing a leisure suit.

Hereford's public leisure facilities are managed by a not-for-profit trust called HALO Leisure, which runs the Hereford Leisure Centre ( that includes huge sports halls, gymnasium, squash courts, and an outdoor athletics facility ), and the Hereford Leisure Pool ( which includes a gymnasium, full size swimming pool, leisure pool, diving pool, and learners pool ).

The Streatham Hub project involves the demolition of Streatham Ice Arena, Streatham Leisure Centre and the former Streatham Bus Garage, and their replacement with a new leisure centre and a Tesco store with 250 flats above it.

Omagh Leisure Complex is a large public amenity, near the Grange Park and is set in of landscaped grounds and features a leisure centre, boating pond, astroturf pitch and cycle paths.

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Ther Triangle leisure centre on the northern edge of the town is run by Freedom Leisure.

Leisure facilities include Benton Hall Golf and leisure centre, a pool club and a library which occupies the building of the town's long-closed cinema, the Whitehall.

The Swedish Federation of Leisure Gardening was founded in 1921 and represents today more than 26, 000 allotment and leisure gardeners.

He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece The Theory of the Leisure Class ( 1899 ) where he argued that there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of " industry ", run by engineers manufacturing goods, vis-a-vis the parasitism of " business " that exists only to make profits for a leisure class.

Leisure facilities in and around the town include a leisure centre ( the Rainbow Centre ) on East Street ; Epsom Downs Racecourse ; the Odeon cinema ; and the Horton Park Children's Farm.

* Leisure fanaticism-high levels of intensity, enthusiasm, commitment and zeal shown for a particular leisure activity.

* The council provide a number of leisure facilities such as the Carnival Pool, St. Crispin's Sports Centre and the Pinewood Leisure Centre.

* Ardent Leisure ( ASX code AAD ), an Australian-based leisure company

The University of Kent and Medway Park Leisure Centre have gone into a multi-million pound partnership to provide high quality leisure facilities for university students and the general public.

Festival Leisure Park is a trading leisure park located in the north of Basildon and owned by Aviva.

* The Strand Leisure Park in Gillingham has an open-air swimming pool on the banks of the River Medway as well as other leisure attractions including tennis courts and a narrow-gauge railway.

WASP families are often stereotyped as pursuing traditional British diversions such as golf, equestrianism, polo, and yachting — expensive pursuits that need both leisure time and affluence to pursue, and which sociologists such as Thorstein Veblen ( The Theory of the Leisure Class ) have pointed to as a marker of social standing.

In 1990, The Rank Group, a London-based leisure company, acquired Mecca Leisure Group and continued expansion of the concept in its geographic territory.

The school owns and runs a sports centre and swimming pool, Kings Fitness & Leisure, with facilities that are used by students as well as residents.

At the Westcroft Leisure Centre in Grove Park, Carshalton, there are health and fitness facilities including two swimming pools one being a teaching pool, sports hall, two others halls, squash court and fitness centre.

There is a combined swimming pool, fitness centre and library run by Greenwich Council and Greenwich Leisure Limited in Thamesmead Central ( The Thamesmere Centre ).

The centre is owned by Croydon Council, but was originally run by Parkwood Leisure, although it is now run by Fusion Lifestyle in partnership with the Council.

In 2003, the Willowburn Sports and Leisure Centre was opened on the southern outskirts of the enlarged town ( replacing the old sports centre located by the Lindisfarne Middle School and the now-demolished Youth Centre ).

The centre is run by DC Leisure on behalf of Waverley borough council.

Leisure craft pass through the centre of the city, using the short Brandenburg City Canal, a smaller lock, and a stretch of the river.

A rescue centre was set up at the local Leisure Centre for those evacuated during the floods.

The Festival Leisure Park, includes several restaurants, a bowling and arcade centre, two hotels, a sixteen screen cinema and two health clubs as well as the third largest nightclub complex in the UK.

* Medway Park ( formerly The Black Lion Leisure Centre ) in Gillingham is a sub-regional sports centre with three indoor pools for swimming and SCUBA diving, gym, fitness centre, sports hall and squash courts.

On 31 October 2008, Leisure @ Cwmbran, a complex, opened on Glyndŵr Road-formerly a disused multi-story car park in the north-east of the town centre.

On the edge of the town centre, is Farnborough Leisure Centre, which has a swimming pool, gym, indoor bowling, squash courts and ten pin bowling.

Sports facilities in Colchester include the sports centre, Colchester Leisure World, Colchester Garrison Athletics Stadium ( a co-operative facility used by both the army and civilian population ), and a skatepark.

There is a new leisure centre being built on Coburg Road to replace the old Thomas Hardye School Leisure Centre, costing over £ 8 million, and will consist of a new swimming pool and sports equipment.

The Herons Leisure Centre, on King's Road, replaced the leisure centre previously at Lion Green in the 1990s ( now the site of Tesco ).

In December 2006, Darwen's Leisure Centre closed so that a new £ 12. 7m leisure centre could be built.

A new leisure centre opened in February 2010, named " Meridian Leisure Centre ".

The local leisure centre in Kinross-Loch Leven Leisure also opportunities for all ages and abilities to stay active all year round.

Leisure has increased with increased longevity and, for many, with decreased hours spent for physical and economic survival, yet others argue that time pressure has increased for modern people, as they are committed to too many tasks.

Wells Leisure Centre has a swimming pool, gymnasium, sports hall, sauna, steam room, relaxation area and solarium.

Greenwich has many sports centres and these are run by Greenwich Leisure Limited ( GLL ).

The Walnuts Leisure Centre, just east of the High Street, has a six-lane, 33. 3 metre indoor swimming pool.

The town also has its own tennis club Downpatrick Tennis Club Downpatrick has several other clubs that use the facilities of the Down Leisure Centre ( run by Down District Council ) such as the Lecale Amateur Swimming Club, the Downpatrick School of Lifesaving and the East Down Athletics Club.

Since 2011, day-to-day management has been handled on behalf of the council by Sentinel Enterprises, which is part of Sentinel Leisure Trust.

There is also a squash club that plays at the Triangle Leisure Centre every Saturday and Monday, and has a team that plays in the East Sussex County League.

Hawaiian Airlines has been rated the best carrier serving Hawaii by Travel + Leisure, Zagat, and Condé Nast Traveler.

It has been operated by The Rank Organisation and Apollo Leisure from 1988 to 1999.

The Chelmsford Water polo club has been running since 1998 and is located in the Ricerside Ice and Leisure building in Chelmsford.

Uttoxeter Leisure Centre in Oldfields Road has a swimming pool, gym and sports hall.

* The Splashes Leisure Centre in Rainham, Kent has a swimming pool with indoor slide and a wave machine.

The original WASP elite established the United States, its social structure and significant institutions, existing as the dominant social group beginning in the 17th century when the country's social hierarchy took shape, and lasting into the 1960s, when WASP society gradually began to relinquish national control and retreating amongst themselves, growing reminiscent of a cloistered Aristocracy, in what has been termed the Leisure class.

Mr. Justice Kitchin has ruled that QC Leisure and other suppliers of foreign satellite systems can carry on with their businesses if they can prevent copyright elements such as branding of football matches from being shown in a public place.

* College of Education ( COE ) – The COE has 29 program areas, including Athletic Training, Aerospace Administration and Operations, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Higher Education, Physical Education, Health Education and Promotion, Leisure Studies, Career and Technical Education

" Leisure activity administrators " need to understand that overt or covert crossing of boundaries and the blurring or renegotiation of a subsystem's primary task are major causes of conflict in parks and recreation agencies ", and that " intrusion upon the lifeguard unit by maintenance or recreational tasks ... has also been a direct cause of unwitnessed drownings ".

The Ennis Leisure Centre has a fully equipped Gym with a 25m pool, Saunas etc.

* Leisure centres – Wrexham has 7 leisure centres: Chirk, Clywedog, Darland, Gwyn Evans ( Gwersyllt ), Plas Madoc, Queensway and Waterworld, which offer activities including swimming, aerobics, climbing walls and yoga.

The town has two main leisure facilities: the Brackenbury Sports Centre in Old Felixstowe and the Felixstowe Leisure Centre adjacent to the pier.

The project has been allocated £ 40 million and this will include the new Multiplex on the Seafront / Regis Centre site, expansion and improvement to the existing theatre, The Alexandra, some chain restaurants and a hotel, the Leisure to be cross subsidized by a large food store on the Hothampton site, and student flats.