(School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: The author pointed out problems currently existing in the study of sports and leisure in China, probed into the essence of the concept of leisure, specified such 5 essential characteristics of leisure as goodness, spontaneity, activeness, joyfulness and timeliness, advocated to use Marx’s “free time” as the theoretical criterion for leisure time, and on the basis of defining “sports leisure” and “leisure sports” respectively, pointed out two difficult issues confronted in the study of leisure sports as well as the relations and differences between these two concepts. Key words: leisure;sports;sports leisure;leisure sports |