All in all, a questionable combination for something billing itself as a leisure activity.
One point was awarded for each activity, and people scoring less than 6 points were defined as having low leisure activity.
About 44 million Americans spend time fishing, according to the American Sports Fishing Association, making it the country's No. 1 leisure activity.
The second is an attempt to respond to the convenience of the Internet by turning visiting a bookshop into a leisure activity.
Arum and Roksa say that college has become a leisure activity, with the typical undergraduate spending 40 hours a week socializing and 13 hours studying.
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My wife, who developed an English tutoring business here, started singing in choirs (an important leisure activity in Israel) shortly after we moved and has become a soloist.
Biking in the United States is treated primarily as a leisure activity, with 73 percent of cyclists telling the National Bicycle Dealers Association (NBDA) they ride for recreation.
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The large stretch of water being covered extends across 50 square miles over two loughs which attract a high level of leisure activity including fishing, sailing, canoeing and over-the-water flying.
Yet the more durable legacy of the 1930s encompasses some of the most stunning examples of British public architecture, as well as the advent of high-street shopping as a leisure activity.
Skeptics could counter that this is not so functionally different from browsing a subscription music service on your PC and then transferring to your portable player, but music discovery is that odd leisure activity that requires work.
After years of when going to the movies meant sitting in a drafty hall watching a film chosen by a local government committee, the Chinese have embraced the idea of taking in a movie as a desirable leisure activity.
"We have also stopped the marketing of sunbeds in our leisure centres which has also had an impact on the income received, " added Ken Danskin, the council's leisure and activity officer.
Mahathir's great leisure-time activity is carpentry -- another pointer to his loner status -- and he is known to have constructed at least one serviceable boat as well as a functioning steam train.
At the end of the study, 55% of those who had six interviews plus 30 vouchers entitling them to free leisure facilities had increased their levels of physical activity compared to 35% of those who only received the chats.
Local and national newspapers in every country, including the United States where I worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, face the same alarming prospect - readers being slowly drained off by competing leisure activities, including television, our favourite activity that consumes more of our time than any thing else except sleeping.
BBC: "I think it's great, and it leaves more room on the counter."
Financial services sector activity expanded but there was a decline in travel, tourism and leisure for the third month.
"Billionaire activity has been concentrated on high-end urban centers rather than leisure properties in the surrounding countryside or regional sunbelts, " said Yolande Barnes, head of world research at Savills.
The five districts reporting on transportation noted increased activity, while tourism activity also increased across the districts, yet the Atlanta District noted concerns about decreased leisure travel to the Gulf Coast.
"I know I should get at least 30 minutes of physical activity in every day, " says Christopher Edginton, a 66-year-old professor of leisure services at the University of Northern Iowa who took niacin for several years.
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