as in relaxation
freedom from activity or labor
upon retiring, the elderly couple looked forward to a life of well-deserved leisure
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Recent Examples of leisure
Think about how much more you got done over Memorial Day compared to a typical weekend... the extra time with friends and family, the extra day of leisure, the extra time to knock things off your to-do list.
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Both share a taste for the refined leisure of the moneyed global elite — golf for Trump, fly fishing for Ramaphosa.
—Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Viewers got a glimpse of the leisure happenings of a professor amid her bout with balancing academia, reality television and simply her authentic life.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Luxury travelers will take 8 leisure trips on average in 2025, a report says.
—Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 16 May 2025
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Both share a taste for the refined leisure of the moneyed global elite — golf for Trump, fly fishing for Ramaphosa.
—Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Viewers got a glimpse of the leisure happenings of a professor amid her bout with balancing academia, reality television and simply her authentic life.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Luxury travelers will take 8 leisure trips on average in 2025, a report says.
—Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 16 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for leisure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leisure
Noun
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The Spa will feature eight treatment rooms, dry saunas, two relaxation lounges with a double-sided fireplace overlooking the orchard, an additional 1,500 square-foot terrace with a year-round outdoor heated mineral spa, a meditation garden, and a dedicated spa fire pit.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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An English cocker spaniel named Mango, from the United Kingdom, was just enjoying a moment of relaxation with his mom when things took a bizarre turn, leaving internet users in stitches.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
Noun
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May will move back and get six days of rest before starting Monday in San Diego.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
6 June 2025
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Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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“Leisure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leisure. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.
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