Leisure World is the name of several retirement communities:
- Leisure World, Arizona
- Leisure World, Seal Beach, California
- Laguna Woods Village, Laguna Woods, California, formerly known as Leisure World
- Leisure World, Rossmoor, Maryland
- Colchester Leisure World, a recreation facility in England
Leisure World is also the name of a popular leisure centre in Bishopstown in Cork, Ireland.
Famous quotes containing the words leisure and/or world:
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us—that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions—they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)