In contrast to “leisure”, which can be idle time of ease, respite, and relaxation, competitive leisure is the use of free time to engage in an activity, typically done only to relax and relieve stress, to instead compete to achieve a goal in order to feel superior to others who may also enjoy the same leisure activity, so that the leisurely feelings of ease, respite, and relaxation are dependent on winning, besting others, and succeeding at pointing out to others one’s own superiority.
Eric and Tim rode their fat tire bikes up the mountain trail in the snow for an hour, neither one wanting to quit, letting their fun ride become a battle of competitive leisure.
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Player 1: Dude I was playing some Competitive Ranked mode, damn everybody is so sweaty!
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Player 2: Man that's just how it is in ranked. It's basically the definition of the phrase!
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Get the child negro competition mug.(n) A group of computer setups where a single computer/server acts as the brain for a set of "dumb" computers. (See: Cloud Computing)
The University Library has a server to manage all their terminals. This setup is a Fog Computing network.
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Get the competition whore mug.Commenting on a post without reacting to the post. Some OPs get annoyed about this, because they have nothing better to do than refresh the number of likes and loves on their post, hoping it will go up.
"Why you always dry commenting on people's posts in this group? and you never make your own memes. GTFO"
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