Leisure terms
History
Recreation for some
Recreation for All
Miscellaneous
100

This can be a form of recreation that is seen as a taboo in society

What is "purple" recreation?

100

This public works and employment program contructed many recreational facilities during the 1930's. 

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?

100

This type of status in society often indicates the amount of access to leisure and recreation one has. 

What is socioeconomic status?

100

These types of accommodations can allow participants with disabilities to more easily participate in recreational activities such as paddlesports, skiing, and many team sports.

What is adaptive equipment?

100

A form of meditative practice that originated in Japan to help relieve stress in natural spaces. 

What is Shinrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing?

200

Often done for it's own sake and usually intrinsically motivated.

What is play?

200

This federal law prohibits sexual discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding. 

What is Title IX?

200

These were common barriers to going on vacation in the late 1800'2 to mid-1900's for many people.

What was: infrastructure, roads, maps, accommodations, time to travel, social....?

200

This law prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications.

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?

200

Every two steps is one of these. Used for measuring distance travelled? 

What is a pace/pace count?

300

Free time spent away from responisbilities,

What is leisure? 

300

These historical world powers were often seen as the birthplace of spectator sports as a way to entertain the masses. The activities often had a basis in the practice of warfare.

What were the Greek and Roman empires?

300

These laws mandated segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. The last ones weren’t overturned until 1965.

What were Jim Crow laws?

300

This law protects people from discrimination, harassment, or abuse in many settings, including:housing, the workplace, school, voting, business, healthcare, and public spaces. 

What is the Civil Rights law?

300

Located in Buxton annex, this is a place to borrow equipment or stage for outing trips available to all students.

What is the recreation gear room?

400

The value attached to hard work, discipline, frugality, and efficieny as a means to achieve one's worldly calling. Also known as the Calvinist work ethic.

What is the Protestant work ethic? 

400

This was a term to describe the view that there was moral and religious value in sports, and these activities should be promoted by the church.

What is "Muscular Cristianity?

400

When treated under the medical model as opposed to the interactional model, it had the effect of discouraging this population from participating in leisure and recreational activities.

Who are folks with disabilities?

400

This form of transportation opened up more access to recreation and vacation destinations for the average citizen.

What were railroads?

400

This type of motivation is most likely to occur when you have autonomy, competence, and a sense of relatedness/connectedness to others when performing an activity. 

What is Intrinsic motivation?

500

A mental state where a person is fully immersed and in control. Also know as being "in the zone"

What is flow state?

500

This was the time post rennaissance when the power of the Catholic Church was challenged. Some Protestants went strongly in the opposite direction to austere, strict religious observance. This lead to philosophy of the Protestant work ethic as a component of one's moral and societal duty.




What is the Protestant Reformation?

500

Insider Intel on safe spaces (such as the "green book"), sanctuaries for like groups(Grossingers in the Catskill's), inclusive destinations like Atlantic city.

How did marginalized groups historically find ways to participate in vacations?

500

These types of trails can accommodate use by individuals who may need mobility devices or support. 

What are accessible trails?

500

At the top level of this model or hierarchy of psychology exists the concept of self-actualization where one's full potential may be realized.

What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?