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Meaning of Recreational and Health

The dictionary defines recreation as the process
of giving new life to something, of restoring
something.
Health is defined as the productive, creative, or
contemplative use of health.

Recreational Activities

Recreational

activities include all kinds of sports,

both team and individual such as baseball, softball,
football, basketball, tennis, badminton, swimming,
and skiing.

Hiking, jogging, aerobics, and rock climbing are

active forms of recreation.
Passive recreational activities include reading,
playing, fishing, and listening to music, gardening,
playing computer games, and watching television or
movies.

Factors Promoting the Growth of Recreation

The following are the factors that help bring about the
growth of recreation:
1. Increase in discretionary time.
2. Influences of technology.
3. Public interest in health and fitness.
4. Co modification of leisure.
5. Therapeutic recreation service.
6. New leisure roles for women.

Types of Organized Recreation

1. Government recreation agencies
2. Voluntary non-profit organizations
3. Private membership organizations
4. Commercial recreation enterprises
5. Employee recreation programs
6. Armed forces recreation
7. Campus recreation
8. Therapeutic recreation services

1. Government recreation agencies

. These are the federal, state, provincial agencies, and

local departments that provide recreation and leisure as
services as a primary function.
. Also include are other agencies that offer recreation
programs as a secondary responsibility such as those
concerned with social service, education, special
populations and the armed forces.

2. Voluntary non-profit organization

These are the governmental, non-profit agencies,
both sectarian and non-sectarian which serve the
public at large with multiservice programs that
often include a substantial element of
recreational opportunity.
The most popular voluntary organizations include
the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, and
YM-YWHA.

Armed forces recreation

Although it is obviously a form of governmentsponsored activity, it is unique in its setting and
purpose. Each of the major branches of the
armed forces operates an extensive network of
recreation facilities and programs.

Campus recreation
It includes intramural athletics or sports clubs,
social activities, travel programs, performing
arts groups, entertainment, lounges, film series
and other forms of recreation on college, and
university campuses.

Therapeutic recreation services

Theses include any other program designed to
meet the needs of persons with physical or
mental disabilities, individuals with poor health,
dependent aging persons, social deviant persons
in correctional facilities, and similar special
groups.

Sports as Popular Recreation

Sports are major areas of recreational

involvement. Of all the types of recreational
involvement, sports command the highest degree
of personal interest and emotional involvement.

Sports are generally defined as physical

activities demanding exertion and skill, involving
competition, carried on with both formal rules
and general standards of etiquette and fair play.

TOURISM
A Major Recreation Service Component
Tourism is a second major area of diversified
recreational involvement. Several major elements
in the tourism enterprise which are closely linked
to the growth of tourism as a form of recreation
are the theme parks, water parks, fun centers,
and sports tourism.

Theme Parks

Theme parks usually concentrate on one dominant theme

which may be historical, cultural or geographical. Like:
Marine Zoological Park

Disneyland

Water Parks
A specialized type of theme park are the water parks,
they feature wave pools, slides, chutes, shows and other
forms of water based play and entertainment.
Universals Islands
Jurassic Park River
of Adventure

Bilge Rat Barges

Poseidons Fury

Sports Tourism

The purpose of sports tourism is to

participate directly in a form of sport or attend
sports evens as a spectator. In the past, only the
team traveled the spectators remained behind to
read about their favorite game or to experience
the game through radio and television.

The World Olympics is the biggest sports

event. It attracts millions of spectators and
generate millions of dollars in revenue.

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