What did people develop leisure time activities?

Having time to do fun things is a modern idea. For thousands of years people worked from sunrise to sunset and a large percentage of the population were farmers. This meant that they needed every hour of daylight to work. Nobility had more time to do fun things. Horse races, dances, target practice, games, Chess, gambling, drinking. Sunday was a traditional day to not work and often it was spent in church. Pubs did serve a cheap ale for the population in general and there was gambling. In ancient Rome all of the population would spend some part of each day in the baths. Even here there were games played designed for the baths, get a massage, and visit the prostitution section. Of course, they had the games and races. In Middle Age Europe there were the passion plays put on by the church, gambling, steeplechase's, and religious holidays.