Recreation usually means activities which are relaxing to humans or provide diversions from their normal routine and lead to refreshment of a person's mind and body. People normally use their leisure time to satisfy such desires as re-creation (restoration or enhancement of mental and physical health), amusement (entertainment, escape), play (relaxation, exercise), adventure (excitement, challenge), or education (organized, incidental). The need for recreation is increasing as people in the world's wealthier regions lead increasingly sedentary life styles. The rise of so called "active vacations" exemplifies this trend.

Recreation, play, and fun are essential for the development of skills, the most basic of which are motor skills in young creatures. Researches have shown that recreation contributes to life satisfaction, quality of life, health and wellness, and that the use of recreation as a diversion may have clinical applications to individuals with chronic pain and other health impairments. Recreation is essential to the longevity of human beings, especially because it helps counteract stress, which is a major factor in many of the leading causes of death especially in developed part of the world.

Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience or even to a single person. It is closely connected with term recreation as being kind of part of it (for example, playing of soccer game can be entertaining, but it is also recreation).

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