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In this study, it has been aimed to examine the recreative tendenceny levels of the college and high school students. The study population comprises of 7344 undergradutes who study at Bartın University formal education and 8806 high school students who attend to the high schools in Bartın province. The research sample consists of in total 1985 students 1042 high school students and 943 undergraduates of Bartın University created via random sampling method. As data collection tools, it was used “Personal Information Form” developed by the researcher and “Recreation” survey prepared by Zorba 2001 . In analysis of the data, frequency, percentage and non-parametric ManWhitney U test were used and the findings were statisticall analyzed through”SPSS 19.0.1”. The statistically significance level was accepted as p< 0.05. As a result, college students have more time for recreation and spend their time by engaging in social, cultural, skill-improving and recreational activities. However, high school students spend their leisure time by watching TV, reading books and listening to music at home. It has been determined differences between the college and high school students in terms of their leisure time period, activity possibİlities and where and how they spend their leisure time. It is the responsiblity of the educational institutions to ensure the young engage in positive activities in their leisure time and make movement and sports permanent in their life. The 58th and 59th articles of the constitution are promotive in that direction. It is to be encouraged to build schools which have areas for outdoor activities, gyms and courts by the authorised body. Awareness can be raised through projects, seminar and contact meetings in order that students can be healthy, dynamic and gain active life habits.

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