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Zorina Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
"Active rest"
Hello everybody!
Here is the situation: two people are talking about their leisure time, and one of them wants to say that he prefers spending his free time by going to the swimming pool or doing yoga, or going to the dance class, etc. instead of reading books or surfing the Internet, or doing cross-stitch embroidering, or making matchsticks models, etc.
What is the short way to say this? Here are my variants (but I don’t like them as I’ve never heard anybody actually saying this):
I prefer active pastime.
I prefer active recreation. (I’ve heard about active recreation centers.)
I prefer active leisure.
Do people talk like this? What do people normally say in this situation?
Thank you for your help.
Here is the situation: two people are talking about their leisure time, and one of them wants to say that he prefers spending his free time by going to the swimming pool or doing yoga, or going to the dance class, etc. instead of reading books or surfing the Internet, or doing cross-stitch embroidering, or making matchsticks models, etc.
What is the short way to say this? Here are my variants (but I don’t like them as I’ve never heard anybody actually saying this):
I prefer active pastime.
I prefer active recreation. (I’ve heard about active recreation centers.)
I prefer active leisure.
Do people talk like this? What do people normally say in this situation?
Thank you for your help.
Top answer
I don't see anything really wrong with your variants. I think I would say "I like to be active when I have free time'.
- I don't see anything really wrong with your variants.
- I think I would say "I like to be active when I have free time'.
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I don't see anything really wrong with your variants. I think I would say "I like to be active when I have free time'.
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Thank you for your answer, Mister Micawber.
I don’t like my variants because they are literal translations from my mother tongue, and when I goggle the phrases (ex. “prefer active recreation”) I get links to Russian and Belorussian websites...
Thank you for your variant. It is so simple. It’s strange that it didn’t come to my mind. Maybe because my mother tongue interferes.
I don’t like my variants because they are literal translations from my mother tongue, and when I goggle the phrases (ex. “prefer active recreation”) I get links to Russian and Belorussian websites...
Thank you for your variant. It is so simple. It’s strange that it didn’t come to my mind. Maybe because my mother tongue interferes.
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