rest and recreation

Example Sentences

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Then, six weeks ago, I traveled to Vietnam on a trip I thought would be mainly rest and recreation, but turned out to reconnect me with a self I'd long forgotten.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022

The ads touted Singer sewing machines and typewriters for providing “increased time and opportunity for women’s rest and recreation or for other occupations from which they had been debarred.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

Still, many northern leaders, deprived of sun for much of the year, are refusing to let political and economic challenges get in the way of their rest and recreation.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2017

Even rest and recreation, in a culture preoccupied with efficiency, can only be understood as valuable insofar as they are useful for some other purpose – usually, recuperation, so as to enable more work.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2016

Our hero, John Wesley Richards, after his long, arduous campaigns in the war, felt that he was entitled to a season of rest and recreation, with plenty of refreshments thrown in to boot.

From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by Elliott, James Carson