Leisure Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Leisure Studies is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil49
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience46
Making sense of the intersubjective structure of homeworld/alienworld to examine the lifeworld of leisure volunteers during Covid 1943
A critical review of multispecies research design in tourism and leisure research34
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches33
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats31
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces30
Leaving pets at home while travelling: AI usage in pet care, emotions, and tourist experiences28
Leisure and self-care for Dalit women in India26
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness26
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women26
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations23
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys23
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause22
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing22
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance21
“The climate crisis is violence:” sexual and gender-based violence and bicycles for mobility justice and development in Nicaragua 118
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places18
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy18
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India17
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?17
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model17
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands17
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research17
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response17
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns17
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’16
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport14
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting14
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants13
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure12
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival12
A new theory for a new leisure class: violent and verdant: systemic injustice in public parks in the US11
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey11
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles11
Routledge handbook of mobile technology, social media and the outdoors11
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers11
Digital sovereignty and leisure: Bluesky as an alternative to X’s suspension in Brazil11
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective10
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children10
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’10
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach10
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
The end of the trail: discontinuing a community hiking programme10
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues10
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children9
Inclusion and equity in outdoor leisure: whose body belongs?9
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation9
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy9
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure9
A case study exploring gender and leisure at a Community men’s shed in the U.S9
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram9
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance9
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour9
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices8
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction8
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory8
Slime bikes? The polluted leisure of micromobility hire schemes in London8
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres8
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn8
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals8
‘Why is generation Z crazy about leisure?’ Understanding leisure motivations among South Korean generation Z: a Q methodology study8
Effect of performance on social identification in serious leisure activities: two studies of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers8
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players8
Understanding human capacity and challenges for the transfer of community sport assets8
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies8
Skateboarding, Power and Change8
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older Black lesbians8
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society7
Visitor and spatial heterogeneity in the uses of urban parks: evidence from mobile signaling data7
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment7
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league7
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers7
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability7
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry7
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China7
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey7
Becoming-with in animal leisure: working dog search training as human and nonhuman intra-actions6
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power6
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance6
Exploring the lived experience associated with fan-made goods: a serious leisure perspective6
Abandoning legacy: towards conceptual clarity and better outcomes in mega-events research6
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations6
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces6
Finding the right balance: youths’ perspectives on parental involvement in dance6
The gamified life: corporate gamification, simulation of play, and the reappropriation of leisure6
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred6
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting6
Paradigm transformation, practical applications, and future prospects of leisure studies based on agent-based modeling6
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape6
Sport, leadership, and social inclusion6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory6
Evolution of leisure patterns and their relationship with life satisfaction in a highly ageing context6
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review6
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view6
Holding the fish herself: women anglers and gendered power relations in Swedish recreational fishing6
The dimensions of the sex as leisure view and their links to young adults’ sexual attitudes and comfort with sexuality5
Exploring the experience of natural green space among South Asian Muslim people in the UK5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences5
‘Even if the hills are old, they can still be green’. Ageing Mexican- mestiza women’s functional adventure bodies in the outdoors5
The ‘dark’ dimensions of grey space in freestyle skateboarding5
The lasting effect of childhood circus memories: nostalgia and guilt5
Turkish recreation history: those who do not know their past cannot shape the future!5
Body, space, and time in virtual reality leisure experience: a phenomenological inquiry5
‘Football was the key’: the role of sports in facilitating migrants’ belonging and inclusion in Poland5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making5
Does digital leisure relate to subjective well-being in later life? Examining roles of enjoyment, social support, and capitalisation5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective5
A cross-national study of the relationships among leisure participation, basic psychological needs satisfaction in leisure, and global life satisfaction5
Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders5
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment5
Mahjong and health: a public health perspective5
Consumer engagement on social media in the sport context: a scoping review5
‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents5
Navigating grief: an autoethnographic tale of open water swimming and loss5
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences5
Leisure and everyday life with dementia5
Gender, sport and society: an introduction5
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens5
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games5
”I felt there was a big chunk taken out of my life”: COVID-19 and older adults’ library-based magazine leisure reading5
Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India5
Neoliberal subjectivities in leisure and sport: a study of the autobiographies of Joshua Sundquist, Lance Armstrong and Yuvraj Singh5
Effects of physical–based serious and casual leisure activities on prisoners in Türkiye: a grounded theory study5
Riding artificial waves: the hybridisation of surfing in urban spaces4
Sociability in a leisure realm4
Changes in the recreational physical activity (RPA) behaviours caused by COVID-19 lockdown – a case study of Poland4
Between hope and cruel optimism? The dangers and possibilities of football in fostering hope for male refugees4
Athletes as destination ambassadors: understanding the role of athlete attachment and sport involvement on country-of-origin’s image and intention to visit4
The role of nature-based leisure activities in enhancing the well-being of Syrian asylum-seeking children living in Türkiye4
Lockdown leisure4
Social participation of the older sexual minority population: CLSA data4
‘Chipping’ away at barriers: trust as an antecedent to sport participation among Muslim women and girls in Melbourne4
Water is a conductor: outdoor swimming as social infrastructure of care and connectivity4
From the domestic to the public sphere: collective leisure as a catalyst for feminist agency and women’s well-being in rural Spain4
The economic value of fishing competitions in Finland – insights from an online survey4
Physical activity and the pressures of ‘good’ motherhood: navigating changing bodies, other mothers and role modelling for the active family4
Researcher as curator: Making room for the politics of emotion in leisure research4
The five levels of sustainability in European football: mapping the sustainability approaches of UEFA’s member national associations4
The role of leisure involvement in fostering entrepreneurship orientation among Turkish women: a resource-based view4
Building inclusive physical activity spaces for gender diverse adolescents: recommendations from community program leaders4
The seriousness of massive multiplayer online games: the case of Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes4
Routledge handbook of sport and social media4
The juggernaut endures: protest, Potemkinism, and Olympic reform4
Social proof or performance pressure? Peer influence on leisure sports adoption among youth – evidence from skateboarding4
Discovering happiness in solo leisure sports: a phenomenological exploration of independent participation4
Examining leisure constraints and motivations within the psychological continuum model: a study among recreational video gamers4
Minority in a minority: exploring marginalisation in wheelchair rugby in the USA4
Race, class, parenting and children’s leisure: children’s leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle- class British Indian families4
An extension of the theory of planned behaviour in Thailand cycling tourism: the mediating role of attractiveness of sustainable alternatives4
Negotiating leisure conflicts in urban square dancing: a Chinese Guanxi perspective4
Time to feather the brakes? The datafication of leisure and concerns about mobility justice4
Sustainable Village Project: the importance of leisure and public space for collective organization4
Tracing Ice tracks: ice sports and socio-cultural transformations in modern China (1883-1945)4
Improving the local development: the stakeholders’ point of view on Italian railway tourism4
Dancing on the asphalt: extending the bodies and materialities of chromatic leisure in Hong Kong4
Using cell phone usage data to explore the spatial distribution of virtual leisure and the impact on reality leisure3
Mediatised live sport as leisure experience: exploring the adoption of media technologies3
‘Everybody’s East Lake’: polluted leisure and BMX in grey spaces3
Leading by example: how National Sports Federations implement environmentally sustainable change through human resource management3
Mountain climbers’ connectedness to nature and happiness: the roles of immersion and inspiration3
‘For me, the most important issue is the games themselves’: anti-Olympic activism and AI video surveillance3
How do youth perspectives on physical activity differ across childhood?3
On the oche: gender, culture and consumption at televised darts events3
Industry insights and post pandemic practices for entrepreneurship and innovation in leisure3
Understanding tourists’ experiences at war heritage sites in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: a netnographic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews3
The 4-day work-week: the new leisure society?3
Leisure and work in China3
Serious leisure and sociolinguistics: English-speaking homebrewers in South Korea and their leisure speech community3
The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn3
Designing outdoor fitness areas for older adults: a conjoint analysis study3
Horse racing and the growth of hashtag activism3
Sustaining life satisfaction and worthwhileness in older age: the role of diversity of social and leisure activity engagement3
Skateboarding and femininity: gender, space-making and expressive movement3
National football leagues as a source of soft power3
Pseudo-authenticity and tourism: preservation, miniaturization, and replication3
E‘Ride on!’: The Zwift platform as a space for virtual leisure3
Running through the in-between: Distance runners in a state of liminality3
Riding the Olympic wave: sportisation and authenticity in Chinese surfing3
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation3
Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling3
A systematic review of the wellbeing benefits of being active through leisure and fitness centres3
Leisure in Turkish society: historical development, policy perspectives, and social structure2
Social issues in sport, leisure, and health2
The functional differentiation of the printed surf magazine in the digital age of leisure reading2
Populism in sport, leisure, and popular culture2
The effect of self-expression on the empowerment of Iranian women adventure travellers2
Ageing in the context of accompanying migration: a leisure stress coping perspective2
Going out before the COVID-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: a model based on social capital theory2
Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association2
The motivations to play organised club-based sport in Australia2
Relationships between yoga and purpose in life among women: testing a moderated mediation model2
Carceral leisure: a Review of A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North County2
Sport and nationalism in China2
Moderating effect of leisure satisfaction on the relationship between work-life conflict and life satisfaction2
Sex as leisure approach during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the quantity and quality of sex life2
From office to crag: serious leisure motivations behind reverse migration among professional groups2
Khat, community, and cultural expression: the performative experiences of young British-Somali men2
Impact of different leisure participation patterns on stress coping and authentic happiness in married women2
Latinos’ interpersonal experiences in natural environments - dynamics of exclusion, tension, and inclusion2
The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats2
Exploring leisure constraints and participation among urban women through the lens of ambivalent sexism theory2
The leisured killers and their prey: considering the representation of human and nonhuman animal entanglements in twentieth-century New Zealand hunting2
A different gravitation: acceptance of authentic selves, becoming through doing, and support through connection within a Highland skatepark2
Olympic Games in transition: analogue beginnings to metaverse futures2
I can’t do it, yet: an autoethnographic exploration of a beginner ice skater2
Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being2
Flying casual: a serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game2
Stolen land for private clubs: leisure, land use, and climate coloniality along the kisiskâciwani-sîpiy2
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces2
“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong2
The role of place attachment in local volunteering: an interpretative phenomenological analysis2
The Influence of Leisure on the Quality of Life of Refugees in Turkey2
The development of pioneer national policy on adventure recreation in Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first review2
Correction2
Urban park accessibility and the mental health of older adults: a case study of Haidian District, Beijing2
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico2
Exploring flow in casual leisure: an experiential study of university employees2
Integrity and sustainability in sport, business, environmental and social goals2
Practicing excitement, aggression and anger in senior leisure sports2
Sailing and social class2
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