{
  "id": "recreation.leisure",
  "term": "recreation",
  "sense": "leisure",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "recreation",
  "domain": "common usage",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "actions that are for play and are done while free",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "play.game",
      "free.unconstrained",
      "action.deed",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "play and free together make activity",
    "novel_properties": [
      "purposeless activity",
      "temporal freedom",
      "engaged idleness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Tokyo Olympics hosted 11,000 athletes in 33 sports after a year's pandemic delay.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Minecraft sold over 300 million copies by 2023, becoming a global digital playground.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Yellowstone National Park welcomed 3.2 million visitors in 2022 for hiking, camping, and wildlife viewing.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "entertainment.leisure",
    "leisure.psychological",
    "park.place"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "recreated",
    "recreates",
    "recreating",
    "recreation",
    "recreations"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'action.deed' and 'time.dimension' which are essential for 'actions' and 'done while' in the definition. Definition retained as correct; record was incomplete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-recreation.leisure"
}