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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience37
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause31
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil29
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches25
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces24
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing23
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations23
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women21
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness21
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison20
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats20
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment19
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys18
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?18
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns17
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance16
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research16
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India16
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure15
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?14
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport14
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response14
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure14
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy13
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants13
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model13
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places13
Skateboard video: archiving the city from below13
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’12
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands12
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children11
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival11
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety11
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 Angeles10
‘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
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers10
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective10
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach9
Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and 9
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies9
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation9
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children9
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues9
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape9
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective9
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy9
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
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure9
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players8
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people8
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory8
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury8
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices8
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction8
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance8
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn8
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres7
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older black lesbians7
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
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society7
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment6
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China6
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’6
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 landscape6
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations6
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach6
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability6
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power6
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces6
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement6
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers6
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance6
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey6
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred6
‘Roleplaying as two straight bros going to a game’: LGBTQ2S+ spectators’ experiences at NHL arenas5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective5
Leisure and everyday life with dementia5
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens5
Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders5
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting5
Does digital leisure relate to subjective well-being in later life? Examining roles of enjoyment, social support, and capitalisation5
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences5
Musician emotional wellbeing during the pandemic: assessing the impact of external factors, positive life outlook and socio-demographics5
Gender, sport and society: an introduction5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences5
Exploring the experience of natural green space among South Asian Muslim people in the UK5
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games4
”I felt there was a big chunk taken out of my life”: COVID-19 and older adults’ library-based magazine leisure reading4
Between hope and cruel optimism? The dangers and possibilities of football in fostering hope for male refugees4
The lasting effect of childhood circus memories: nostalgia and guilt4
‘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
The dimensions of the sex as leisure view and their links to young adults’ sexual attitudes and comfort with sexuality4
Body, space, and time in virtual reality leisure experience: a phenomenological inquiry4
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
Encouraging prosocial collecting behaviours: aligning psychological motives and incentives among leisure hobbyists4
Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India4
Navigating grief: an autoethnographic tale of open water swimming and loss4
Turkish recreation history: those who do not know their past cannot shape the future!4
An extension of the theory of planned behaviour in Thailand cycling tourism: the mediating role of attractiveness of sustainable alternatives4
Athletes as destination ambassadors: understanding the role of athlete attachment and sport involvement on country-of-origin’s image and intention to visit4
Consumer engagement on social media in the sport context: a scoping review4
The ‘dark’ dimensions of grey space in freestyle skateboarding4
Sustainable Village Project: the importance of leisure and public space for collective organization3
Examining leisure constraints and motivations within the psychological continuum model: a study among recreational video gamers3
Minority in a minority: exploring marginalisation in wheelchair rugby in the USA3
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football3
The juggernaut endures: protest, Potemkinism, and Olympic reform3
Dancing on the asphalt: extending the bodies and materialities of chromatic leisure in Hong Kong3
Social participation of the older sexual minority population: CLSA data3
Lockdown leisure3
Embracing panda—assessing the leisure pursuits of subscribers to China’s iPanda live streaming platform3
Improving the local development: the stakeholders’ point of view on Italian railway tourism3
Disasters and catastrophes: the impact on people with disabilities’ leisure-time physical activity participation and associative mental health and well-being3
Race, class, parenting and children’s leisure: children’s leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle- class British Indian families3
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment3
National football leagues as a source of soft power3
Depression and leisure-based meaning-making: anhedonia as a mediating factor3
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
The seriousness of massive multiplayer online games: the case of Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes3
Changes in the recreational physical activity (RPA) behaviours caused by COVID-19 lockdown – a case study of Poland3
Physical activity and the pressures of ‘good’ motherhood: navigating changing bodies, other mothers and role modelling for the active family3
Riding artificial waves: the hybridisation of surfing in urban spaces3
The role of leisure involvement in fostering entrepreneurship orientation among Turkish women: a resource-based view3
A ramp that leads to nothing: outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Understanding tourists’ experiences at war heritage sites in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: a netnographic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews3
Skateboarding and femininity: gender, space-making and expressive movement3
Using cell phone usage data to explore the spatial distribution of virtual leisure and the impact on reality leisure3
Pseudo-authenticity and tourism: preservation, miniaturization, and replication2
The influence of triathletes’ serious leisure traits on sport constraints, involvement, and participation2
Karaoke as a form of leisure in later life: connections between singing and meaning in life2
Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling2
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
Flying casual: a serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game2
Sailing and social class2
Going out before the COVID-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: a model based on social capital theory2
Moderating effect of leisure satisfaction on the relationship between work-life conflict and life satisfaction2
E‘Ride on!’: The Zwift platform as a space for virtual leisure2
Leading by example: how National Sports Federations implement environmentally sustainable change through human resource management2
Horse racing and the growth of hashtag activism2
Globalised and culturally homogenised? How Generation Z in Poland spends their free time2
Overcoming the neutral zone trap2
Transforming sport and physical cultures through feminist knowledges2
Running through the in-between: Distance runners in a state of liminality2
The leisured killers and their prey: considering the representation of human and nonhuman animal entanglements in twentieth-century New Zealand hunting2
The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism2
Community and social correlates of leisure activity participation among older adults2
Sex as leisure approach during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the quantity and quality of sex life2
How do youth perspectives on physical activity differ across childhood?2
‘Everybody’s East Lake’: polluted leisure and BMX in grey spaces2
Parkrun: An Organised Running Revolution2
Mountain climbers’ connectedness to nature and happiness: the roles of immersion and inspiration2
Gender dissidence in leisure and travel: exploring social vulnerability and resistance in Latin America2
From serious leisure to devotee work: an exploratory study of yoga2
Industry insights and post pandemic practices for entrepreneurship and innovation in leisure2
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation2
Perceived constraints and negotiation strategies by elderly tourists when visiting heritage sites2
Social issues in sport, leisure, and health2
Serious leisure and sociolinguistics: English-speaking homebrewers in South Korea and their leisure speech community2
A systematic review of the wellbeing benefits of being active through leisure and fitness centres2
Sustaining life satisfaction and worthwhileness in older age: the role of diversity of social and leisure activity engagement2
Designing outdoor fitness areas for older adults: a conjoint analysis study2
Touching superdiversity: migrants’ experiences of transcultural tactility in recreational dance1
Creative tourism and creative spaces in China1
Disabled animals and leisure: casting light on those left behind in the shadows1
U.S. family cultures of sport and physical activity and 15 year olds’ physical activity, sports participation, and subjective health1
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico1
Changes in adult leisure-time physical activity during and after COVID-19 restrictions in Colorado Springs, Colorado1
Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic1
Vinum Regum: Classic themes in fine drinking stories1
Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association1
The development of pioneer national policy on adventure recreation in Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first review1
Exploring BMX as a tool for wellbeing promotion1
The Influence of Leisure on the Quality of Life of Refugees in Turkey1
New age spectacles: Understanding the semiotics of cricket through Roland Barthes’ ‘The World of Wrestling’1
The motivations to play organised club-based sport in Australia1
Sport and nationalism in China1
Māori households assembling precarious leisure1
The impact of pet attachment on life satisfaction: the multi-mediation effects of leisure seriousness and serious leisure rewards1
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity1
Impact of COVID-19 on the quantity of visitation to leisure tourism facilities in China: cases of Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao1
Correction1
Running alone or in groups? Social capital and quality of life considerations1
Leisure and cultural change in Israeli society1
More-than-human encounters with fish in the City: from careful angling practice to deadly indifference1
I can’t do it, yet: an autoethnographic exploration of a beginner ice skater1
“I don’t want to get in anyone’s way”: mapping girl skateboarders’ navigation of place and power in skate spaces1
“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong1
The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats1
Leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Brazil: a meta-analysis1
Urban park accessibility and the mental health of older adults: a case study of Haidian District, Beijing1
Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being1
The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness1
Hijab in the water! Muslim women and participation in aquatic leisure activities in New Zealand: an intersectional approach1
Exploring the role of leisure behaviour in finding identity for Chinese diasporic people: looking through the lens of music1
Social-Ecological Analysis of the Sport and Recreation Programs’ Impacts on Positive Development of Youth from Socially Vulnerable Backgrounds1
Populism in sport, leisure, and popular culture1
Gambling lifestyles: The importance of social capital and diverse networks1
Ageing in the context of accompanying migration: a leisure stress coping perspective1
Leisure activities in the outdoors: learning, developing and challenging1
The effect of self-expression on the empowerment of Iranian women adventure travellers1
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health1
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
Warsaw small and medium-sized public urban green spaces as a response to short-time leisure needs of local residents and passers-by1
Exploring leisure constraints and participation among urban women through the lens of ambivalent sexism theory1
Exploring urban community gardens as ‘third places’: fostering social interaction in distressed neighbourhoods of Cape Town, South Africa1
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces1
Leisure activity participation among older adults: a review1
Impact of different leisure participation patterns on stress coping and authentic happiness in married women1
Understanding visitors’ leisure benefits and heritage meaning-making: a case study of Liangzhu Culture Museum1
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