Grade 12 Recreational Activities
Grade 12 Recreational Activities
Grade 12 Recreational Activities
ACTIVITIES
RECREATIONAL
• Revitalize all the different aspects of life (physical, mental, social, emotional)
• All activities are held for everybody’s enjoyment and it relaxes your mind and body. It relieves your
day to day tension
• Recreational activities are actions that are performed solely for the enjoyment, pleasure and
amusement of individuals. Recreational activities are fun, mentally or physically engaging
activities that people usually plan to do during their time off from work or school.
CLASSIFICATIONS OF RECREATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Regular outdoor activity provides a number of Outdoor activities lead to an increased confidence,
improved creativity and better self-esteem.
physical health benefits, including lower blood
Natural settings rejuvenate and calm the mind,
pressure, reduced arthritis pain, weight loss
improve outlook and increase positive effect.
and lowered risk of diabetes.
• Emotional Benefits
• Social Benefits Both physical activity and outdoor settings reduce
stress, anxiety and depression. Spending time
Along with an increase in physical activity, exercising in a park leads to an increase in positive
outdoor recreation offers the chance to moods and a reduction in cortisol levels, a
hormone released when the body feels stress
socialize, an important benefit in itself.
TYPES OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
INDOOR OUTDOOR
• Indoor activities are also a part of the • Outdoor recreation or outdoor activity
recreation programmed. The word literally refers to leisure pursuits engaged in the
tells us that indoor recreation activities are outdoors, often in natural or semi-natural
undertaken on the comfort of one’s home settings out of town. The primary purposes
or more specifically indoor and they are to for outdoor recreation are beneficial use and
recreate the mind and soul. pleasurable appreciation.