Leisure Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Leisure Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience34
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil33
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches29
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness26
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing26
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women24
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats23
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison22
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations21
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys21
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces18
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause17
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response16
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting16
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research16
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure15
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance15
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport14
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure14
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?14
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns13
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places13
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’13
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants13
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands12
“The climate crisis is violence:” sexual and gender-based violence and bicycles for mobility justice and development in Nicaragua 112
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India12
Skateboard video: archiving the city from below12
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model12
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach11
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey11
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children11
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety11
‘I drew myself playing football with the clouds and the sun’: qualitative research methods to explore children’s leisure experiences in disadvantaged contexts of less economically developed countries10
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID10
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy10
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers10
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies10
Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and 10
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective10
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival10
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles10
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation9
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape9
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children9
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour9
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’9
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram9
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues9
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices8
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn8
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people8
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury8
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance8
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective8
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players8
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older Black lesbians7
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres7
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction7
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry7
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals7
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure7
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society7
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies7
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory7
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement6
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory6
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey6
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment6
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league6
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power6
Holding the fish herself: women anglers and gendered power relations in Swedish recreational fishing6
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach6
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability6
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review6
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape5
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making5
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance5
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting5
Gender, sport and society: an introduction5
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations5
Leisure and everyday life with dementia5
Exploring the lived experience associated with fan-made goods: a serious leisure perspective5
Visitor and spatial heterogeneity in the uses of urban parks: evidence from mobile signaling data5
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective5
Finding the right balance: youths’ perspectives on parental involvement in dance5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences5
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred5
Consumer engagement on social media in the sport context: a scoping review4
”I felt there was a big chunk taken out of my life”: COVID-19 and older adults’ library-based magazine leisure reading4
Musician emotional wellbeing during the pandemic: assessing the impact of external factors, positive life outlook and socio-demographics4
Exploring the experience of natural green space among South Asian Muslim people in the UK4
The ‘dark’ dimensions of grey space in freestyle skateboarding4
Athletes as destination ambassadors: understanding the role of athlete attachment and sport involvement on country-of-origin’s image and intention to visit4
The lasting effect of childhood circus memories: nostalgia and guilt4
Turkish recreation history: those who do not know their past cannot shape the future!4
Between hope and cruel optimism? The dangers and possibilities of football in fostering hope for male refugees4
‘Football was the key’: the role of sports in facilitating migrants’ belonging and inclusion in Poland4
‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents4
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences4
Does digital leisure relate to subjective well-being in later life? Examining roles of enjoyment, social support, and capitalisation4
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games4
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment4
An extension of the theory of planned behaviour in Thailand cycling tourism: the mediating role of attractiveness of sustainable alternatives4
Body, space, and time in virtual reality leisure experience: a phenomenological inquiry4
The dimensions of the sex as leisure view and their links to young adults’ sexual attitudes and comfort with sexuality4
Encouraging prosocial collecting behaviours: aligning psychological motives and incentives among leisure hobbyists4
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens4
Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders4
Navigating grief: an autoethnographic tale of open water swimming and loss4
The five levels of sustainability in European football: mapping the sustainability approaches of UEFA’s member national associations4
Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India4
Embracing panda—assessing the leisure pursuits of subscribers to China’s iPanda live streaming platform3
Understanding tourists’ experiences at war heritage sites in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: a netnographic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews3
National football leagues as a source of soft power3
The seriousness of massive multiplayer online games: the case of Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes3
Examining leisure constraints and motivations within the psychological continuum model: a study among recreational video gamers3
Disasters and catastrophes: the impact on people with disabilities’ leisure-time physical activity participation and associative mental health and well-being3
Physical activity and the pressures of ‘good’ motherhood: navigating changing bodies, other mothers and role modelling for the active family3
Researcher as curator: Making room for the politics of emotion in leisure research3
Discovering happiness in solo leisure sports: a phenomenological exploration of independent participation3
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football3
Lockdown leisure3
‘Chipping’ away at barriers: trust as an antecedent to sport participation among Muslim women and girls in Melbourne3
Using cell phone usage data to explore the spatial distribution of virtual leisure and the impact on reality leisure3
Sociability in a leisure realm3
Riding artificial waves: the hybridisation of surfing in urban spaces3
Minority in a minority: exploring marginalisation in wheelchair rugby in the USA3
Mahjong and health: a public health perspective3
Dancing on the asphalt: extending the bodies and materialities of chromatic leisure in Hong Kong3
Sustainable Village Project: the importance of leisure and public space for collective organization3
The mega-events database: systematising the evidence on mega-event outcomes3
Tracing Ice tracks: ice sports and socio-cultural transformations in modern China (1883-1945)3
A ramp that leads to nothing: outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Changes in the recreational physical activity (RPA) behaviours caused by COVID-19 lockdown – a case study of Poland3
The role of leisure involvement in fostering entrepreneurship orientation among Turkish women: a resource-based view3
Race, class, parenting and children’s leisure: children’s leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle- class British Indian families3
Improving the local development: the stakeholders’ point of view on Italian railway tourism3
The juggernaut endures: protest, Potemkinism, and Olympic reform3
Going out before the COVID-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: a model based on social capital theory2
Sailing and social class2
Parkrun: An Organised Running Revolution2
Sustaining life satisfaction and worthwhileness in older age: the role of diversity of social and leisure activity engagement2
Industry insights and post pandemic practices for entrepreneurship and innovation in leisure2
From serious leisure to devotee work: an exploratory study of yoga2
E‘Ride on!’: The Zwift platform as a space for virtual leisure2
Horse racing and the growth of hashtag activism2
Globalised and culturally homogenised? How Generation Z in Poland spends their free time2
Depression and leisure-based meaning-making: anhedonia as a mediating factor2
Karaoke as a form of leisure in later life: connections between singing and meaning in life2
The 4-day work-week: the new leisure society?2
‘I didn’t realise the variety of people that are climbers’: a sociological exploration of young women’s propensities to engage in indoor rock climbing2
Urban park accessibility and the mental health of older adults: a case study of Haidian District, Beijing2
The leisured killers and their prey: considering the representation of human and nonhuman animal entanglements in twentieth-century New Zealand hunting2
A systematic review of the wellbeing benefits of being active through leisure and fitness centres2
Sex as leisure approach during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the quantity and quality of sex life2
Moderating effect of leisure satisfaction on the relationship between work-life conflict and life satisfaction2
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation2
Transforming sport and physical cultures through feminist knowledges2
Leading by example: how National Sports Federations implement environmentally sustainable change through human resource management2
Overcoming the neutral zone trap2
The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn2
Social participation of the older sexual minority population: CLSA data2
Serious leisure and sociolinguistics: English-speaking homebrewers in South Korea and their leisure speech community2
The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism2
Flying casual: a serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game2
Social issues in sport, leisure, and health2
Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being2
Leisure in Turkish society: historical development, policy perspectives, and social structure2
How do youth perspectives on physical activity differ across childhood?2
Community and social correlates of leisure activity participation among older adults2
Running through the in-between: Distance runners in a state of liminality2
Gender dissidence in leisure and travel: exploring social vulnerability and resistance in Latin America2
Pseudo-authenticity and tourism: preservation, miniaturization, and replication2
Mountain climbers’ connectedness to nature and happiness: the roles of immersion and inspiration2
Skateboarding and femininity: gender, space-making and expressive movement2
Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling2
‘Everybody’s East Lake’: polluted leisure and BMX in grey spaces2
Designing outdoor fitness areas for older adults: a conjoint analysis study2
Perceived constraints and negotiation strategies by elderly tourists when visiting heritage sites2
Exploring the role of leisure behaviour in finding identity for Chinese diasporic people: looking through the lens of music1
The Performative Body in the Sports World of Modern East Asia1
Gender, class, and respectability in leisure: understanding women’s ‘free time activities’ in modern Turkey1
Impact of COVID-19 on the quantity of visitation to leisure tourism facilities in China: cases of Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao1
U.S. family cultures of sport and physical activity and 15 year olds’ physical activity, sports participation, and subjective health1
The effect of self-expression on the empowerment of Iranian women adventure travellers1
I can’t do it, yet: an autoethnographic exploration of a beginner ice skater1
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity1
The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats1
The impact of pet attachment on life satisfaction: the multi-mediation effects of leisure seriousness and serious leisure rewards1
“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong1
New age spectacles: Understanding the semiotics of cricket through Roland Barthes’ ‘The World of Wrestling’1
Exploring BMX as a tool for wellbeing promotion1
Ageing in the context of accompanying migration: a leisure stress coping perspective1
An exploratory study of work-leisure relationships during the Covid-19 lockdown1
Football on the frontlines: the unjust burden of the climate crisis on Pacific Island nations1
The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness1
Traditional capoeira street circles in Florianópolis (Southern Brazil): impacts of the covid-19 pandemic1
Vinum Regum: Classic themes in fine drinking stories1
Queering urban space through informal recreation: The experiences of a queer, predominantly Asian volleyball community in New York City1
The Influence of Leisure on the Quality of Life of Refugees in Turkey1
Exploring urban community gardens as ‘third places’: fostering social interaction in distressed neighbourhoods of Cape Town, South Africa1
Impact of different leisure participation patterns on stress coping and authentic happiness in married women1
“I don’t want to get in anyone’s way”: mapping girl skateboarders’ navigation of place and power in skate spaces1
Relationships between yoga and purpose in life among women: testing a moderated mediation model1
A different gravitation: acceptance of authentic selves, becoming through doing, and support through connection within a Highland skatepark1
Social-Ecological Analysis of the Sport and Recreation Programs’ Impacts on Positive Development of Youth from Socially Vulnerable Backgrounds1
Exploring leisure constraints and participation among urban women through the lens of ambivalent sexism theory1
Gambling lifestyles: The importance of social capital and diverse networks1
Warsaw small and medium-sized public urban green spaces as a response to short-time leisure needs of local residents and passers-by1
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces1
Seeking tourism in a social context: an examination of Chinese rural migrant workers’ travel motivations and constraints1
Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association1
“Iranians on one side, immigrants on the other!”: socio-cultural constraints to sport participation amongst Afghan women migrants and refugees1
Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body and Nature1
More-than-human encounters with fish in the City: from careful angling practice to deadly indifference1
Running alone or in groups? Social capital and quality of life considerations1
Leisure activity participation among older adults: a review1
Searching for prestige: motivations and managerial implications of Chinese campus tourists1
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health1
Changes in adult leisure-time physical activity during and after COVID-19 restrictions in Colorado Springs, Colorado1
Sport and nationalism in China1
Correction1
Leisure activities in the outdoors: learning, developing and challenging1
The development of pioneer national policy on adventure recreation in Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first review1
Touching superdiversity: migrants’ experiences of transcultural tactility in recreational dance1
The motivations to play organised club-based sport in Australia1
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico1
Leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Brazil: a meta-analysis1
Antisemitism in football - international perspectives1
Populism in sport, leisure, and popular culture1
Inspiring sport event volunteer engagement and sense of pride: the importance of organisational environmental factors1
Light, camera, hospitality: relationship between hosts and guests in film productions in Minas Gerais, Brazil1
Māori households assembling precarious leisure1
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