(School of Physical Education,Hunan Normal University,Changsha 410012,China) Abstract: “Slow life” is a new idea for life that is prevailing worldwide. It is a retrospection and criticism to the fast pace life in a modern society. What it embodies is an easygoing life style. From slow life we can get some reference and inspiration for leisure sports, change some malpractices currently occurring, so that leisure sports are not only used to kill some leisure time or to enjoy sensational excitement, but also used to enrich and uplift the connotation and style of sports leisure by means of “hearted love”. Slowed down leisure sports will enable people to make im-provements both physiologically and psychologically, and to experience the joy of exercising and beyond exercis-ing. The slowness of leisure sports includes such two aspects as external form and internal experience, and the latter is more important. The ultimate purpose of leisure sports is to seek for harmony between fastness and slowness. Key words: social sports;slow life;leisure sports |