It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

It's up to people, whatever recreation they're doing, to do it responsibly.

When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.

During its nearly one hundred years of existence, [the Forest Service] has consistently demonstrated a preference for exploitation over recreation.

So much for the recreational side of night life in the upper-bracket-income hotels of Manhattan. And in its root-origins the very word itself is implicit with implication: re-create. Analyze it and you'll see it also means to reproduce. But clever, ingenious Man has managed to sidetrack it into making life more livable.("New York Blues")

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.