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
The minister, Mr. McNutt, in a religious spirit so well supplied the recreative life needed in the community, that the community has been made whole.
From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
Finally, to the services just above described the public library has added another: the supply of books for proposes purely recreative.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
Make your recreative reading in itself have some aim.
From How to Study by George Fillmore Swain
