The company is responsible for elevating video games to a serious recreational activity and booming, global business.

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Killing for pleasure has also been documented among headhunting cultures, in which decapitation was sometimes pursued as a recreational activity.

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Today, golf is the country's most popular recreational activity, beating out even the national pastime of hockey, according to the country's statistics agency.

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That same year, writes John Fry in his book The Story of Modern Skiing, the chairlift was invented in the US, revolutionizing skiing as a recreational activity.

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"Now snow-holing has become a more recreational activity, " he says.

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National liberals have not been much better, spending most of their time bad-mouthing milk and advocating fat taxes, which is apparently a recreational activity at the increasingly vitriolic Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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Many brain drugs, both therapeutic and recreational, work either by mimicking neurotransmitters or altering their activity.

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