The reveal information about the most common leisure activities which the engaged in between 1999 and 2009. Overall, the largest percentage of people living in the US enjoyed walking.

As can be seen clearly, the figures for soccer, camping and walking increased slightly by to 18%, 9% and 31% respectively during the ten-year period. On the other hand, the proportions of people yoga [5 to 10 % ] and swimming [ 9 to 18% ] over the same period.

By contrast, the witnessed a significant decrease in the percentages of American people participating in the remaining activities. To be more specific, the figure for jogging nearly halved from 7% to 3%. What is more, there was a dramatic fall in the proportion of aerobics players . Finally, when it comes to bicycling, the figure for this activity dropped from 14% to 7%.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the annual American Time Use Survey [ATUS] last week, providing a snapshot of the average American day. The report is full of insights into how Americans age 15 and older spend their days.

One of the most notable insights is that work from home isn't going away.

The number of Americans who do some or all of their work from home has dropped since 2020 but is still far above pre-pandemic levels this year.

More than 1 in 3 employed Americans worked from home in 2022

Working from home was much more common for people with higher levels of education. More than half of employees with a bachelor's degree or higher, 54%, worked from home in 2022, while just 18% of workers with a high school degree worked remotely.

How did Americans spend their days in 2022?

Other than sleep, the only thing Americans did more than work was engaging in leisure and sports. The most popular leisure activity was watching television, which the average person spent nearly three hours a day doing.

Most common American leisure activities

Habits and activities changed depending on the day. On average, Americans spent more than three extra hours working on weekdays than on weekend days.

Top five daily activities

It isn't just the amount of time at work that changes during the weekend.

Americans spent more than two hours engaged in leisure on weekends, and nearly half an hour less involved in educational activities than on weekdays.

A September 2013 Harris Interactive poll asked 2,577 American adults, “Thinking of the time when you are not working or in school, what would you say your two or three favorite leisure time activities are?” Here are the results for what Harris defines as Echo Boomers [also know as Millennials] and Gen X.

If we exclude reading, although today much of it takes place on a tablet screen, four of the most popular five leisure activities for both Millennials and Gen X take place on a screen:

• watching TV,
• computer/internet,
• watching/going to the movies
• playing video games and computer/internet games

This truly shows how our leisure activities have become heavily screen-based.

It is also interesting that food, both cooking and dining at restaurants, ranks higher with Millennials than with Gen X.

About Randy White

Randy White is CEO and co-founder of the White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group. The 31-year-old company, with offices in Kansas City, Missouri, has worked for over 600 clients in 37 countries throughout the world. Projects the company has designed and produced have won seventeen 1st place awards. Randy is considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on feasibility, brand development, design and production of leisure experience destinations including entertainment, eatertainment, edutainment, agritainment/agritourism, play and leisure facilities.

Randy was featured on the Food Network's Unwrapped television show as an eatertainment expert, quoted as an entertainment/edutainment center expert in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times and Time magazine and received recognition for family-friendly designs by Pizza Today magazine. One of the company's projects was featured as an example of an edutainment project in the book The Experience Economy. Numerous national newspapers have interviewed him as an expert on shopping center and mall entertainment and retail-tainment.

Randy is a graduate of New York University. Prior to repositioning the company in 1989 to work exclusively in the leisure and learning industry, White Hutchinson was active in the retail/commercial real estate industry as a real estate consultancy specializing in workouts/turnarounds of commercial projects. In the late 1960s to early 1980s, Randy managed a diversified real estate development company that developed, owned and managed over 2.0 million square feet of shopping centers and mixed-use projects and 2,000 acres of residential subdivisions. Randy has held the designations of CSM [Certified Shopping Center Manager] and Certified Retail Property Executive [CRX] from the International Council of Shopping Centers [ICSC].

He has authored over 150 articles that have been published in over 40 leading entertainment/leisure and early childhood education industry magazines and journals and has been a featured speaker and keynoter at over 40 different conventions and trade groups.

Randy is the editor of his company's Leisure eNewsletter, has a blog and posts on Twitter and Linkedin.

What is the most common leisure activity in America?

Most popular hobbies & activities in the U.S. as of December 2023.

What is the number 1 hobby in America?

1 US HOBBY: COOKING AND BAKING 39%

How do Americans spend their leisure time?

They spend about 37% of their time on sleeping, 22% of their time on leisure and sports, 8% of their time on household activities [including travel], 6% of their time on care for children and parents, and about 5% of their time on eating and drinking.

What is leisure activity and give 5 examples?

There are several examples of leisure activities. They include surfing, bicycling, traveling, horseback riding, tennis, golfing, skating, walking, swimming, weightlifting, hiking, martial arts, and skiing.