Immaculate Conceptions

What is 'leisure'? The debate has raged for some time, and shows no sign of abating. One of the main problems is that there is no consistency of definitional subject. One of the current authors has observed that leisure not only seems to mean different things to different people, but that it has also on occasion meant different things to the same person at different times (Long, 1982). This can apparently be said, too, of leisure scholars (including that same author and his various colleagues) in their research and writing. This paper is an attempt to make some progress in this definitional morass. One of its central claims will be that there is not as much disagreement around as at first seems.