recreative
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His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most fruitful road to Joseph seems to be, as the Rev. Edington noted, one combining "good, serious Bible study and some recreative imagination."
From Time Magazine Archive
Still others appear to allow their boys and girls to roam at will and to indulge them only in the recreative experiences.
From Farm Boys and Girls by William Arch McKeever
But how indefensible the idea that anyone should try to find permanent joy and satisfaction through recreative experiences without first having had as their counterpart the experience of work and the responsibilities that pertain thereto!
From Farm Boys and Girls by William Arch McKeever
The small group is frequently destitute of social resources outside itself, it is cut off from friendly visits, services, lectures, music, new books, news, and the many recreative influences which all men regard as innocent.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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