The bar chart illustrates the time distribution for leisure and sports activities daily by the oldest and youngest generations in the US in 2015.
Overall, sedentary activities such as watching TV, reading, unwinding, and relaxing attracted a larger number of elderly, while the younger individuals preferred social activities such as socializing, using computers, sports, and recreation. Additionally, TV watching was the most prevalent activity between the two populations.
Passive activities were extremely common among senior citizens over 75 years old, with TV watching taking the lead at 4.5 hours every day, nearly doubling that of the younger citizens with 2.4 hours. Similarly, only 0.2 hours were devoted to reading by this group, which was only one-fifth of the amount of time that older people spent. Relaxing and thinking represented a less considerable difference, with 0.1-0.6 hours from both generations. However, the elderly still accounted for more time in this activity.
The remaining active activities were fairly popular among younger citizens who were between 15 and 19. This group used up to one hour of their daily free time playing games and using computers for fun, while the older group only allocated half an hour to this activity. Resembling similar figures, 0.6 hours were dedicated to physical and recreational activities by the youth, which triples the time of their senior counterparts. Lastly, two age cohorts spent nearly identical time communicating, at around 0,7-0,8 hours, with a slight surpassion of the younger age cohort.