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Nude Recreation is a trope in which individuals engage in athletic or physical activities while completely nude. These activities involve various forms of bodily movement, coordination, exertion, and athleticism — ranging from strength and endurance to flexibility and balance. Typically, the focus is on fun, fitness, or social interaction rather than competition. For related tropes such as activity while swimming naked in the water or involving time in the hot springs it would be under Skinny Dipping or Hot Springs Episode. Though have no involvement with sexual activity between spouses.

Examples of Nude Recreation include:

Anime and Manga[]

  • Brynhildr in the Darkness, has Mina Tachibana who while in her hotel room conducts her investigative research on her laptop in the nude.
  • Megami no Sprinter, has a professional tracker runner having a fetish which sprinting naked as part of training which she passes to her young brother-in-law.
  • Super HxEros has a special chapter/OVA episode where an alien brainwashes an entire high school that nakedness is normal. There’s a piece where naked girls are playing volleyball.

Fanfic[]

  • On Display by HStoner, Will being an exhibitionist enjoys being nude in front of his girlfriend Pattie. The latter introduces him to Belinda who is a photographer who is allowed to photograph him. Pattie soon joins in and goes naked, actively posing whiel climbing trees, running, and making love in front of the camera. The couple eventually go take naked yoga and gain a third lover partner named Soluna who joins the pair making it a trio.

Film[]

  • Breastford Wives, Rob actually is naked on a rowing machine while a woman rides him. And even juggles having sex and exercising at a chest workout station.
  • Cohabitation with My Ex-Wife, has Seonha a cello player practices nude at her home, finding she performs better.
  • Kelly's First Nudist Retreat, there’s a nude tai chi instructor.
  • The Pet (2006), GG and Taps two women who sold themselves into slavery as human pets play fetch in the snow at the amusement of their masters.

Literature[]

  • Firefall (2012), the Lily People are a naked people living on a plateau with a forest of man-killer vines. Most of their activities are taking walks through the forest or collecting fruit from the danger forest, though adults appear to find the danger minimal running through the forest avoiding vines easily like football players.
  • The Freakshow by Bryan Smith, has an entire isolated town being captured by a circus run by mutants who originate from another dimension or possibly from an apocalyptic future. After taking the townsfolk captive, using them as their perverse entertainments, they clone every single person, with the exact same faces, though body types are more standard to replace their captives so that no one suspects anything. As a test run they have the clones act out as normal humans enjoying time at the circus. Though everyone is nude.
  • Genus Homo by L. Sprague de Camp, the last men and women on Earth who had awaken after a million years find themselves in a zoo for the pleasure of intelligent gorillas. Assumed to be a new species of animals they are stripped of their clothes. To avoid the pressures of the rain and cold, they play tag and soon start slapping each other’s buttocks. The out of boredom a few engage in wrestling. And for the entertainment of the apes a troupe of former nightclub dancers performed.
  • Murphys In Space by P.Z. Walker, there is Freedom Beach hosted nude volleyball games in their nudist community.
  • Naked Eddie by Wayne Martin Judge, the main character Eddie decides to have fun by snowboarding naked.
  • The Naked Lounge by P.A. Choi, has the bar lounge called the Air Frais. basically an bar that caters to exhibitionists who want to hang out naked, drinking and dancing.
  • Planet of the Apes, the naked Nova while meeting the undressed astronauts from Earth in a pool in the jungles of Soror entices them to a simple game of tag in the water. Later her tribe engage in it the next day and later on land tag. The lady animal tamer who was condemn to be a circus animal by her own orangutans was made to perform various athletic feats like somersaults.
  • The Prisoner of Zhamanak by L. Sprague de Camp, two humans, Percy Mjipa and Alicia Dyckman, are held as naked captives in a menagerie of an alien warlord with the purpose of breeding. To stave off any sexual desire the two engage in a training regime of exercise of sit ups and push ups.

Live-Action TV[]

  • Baywatch, in “Hot Water” has an old man named Howard doing tai chi naked with bush covering lower portion with two women nude sunbathing on an illegal nudist beach.
  • Supernatural (TV series), in "Red Sky at Morning," when Dean asks how Bela Talbot sleeps at night after scamming people old ladies in charms and seances, claims that she does so on silk sheets, rolling naked in money.

Real-Life[]

  • The Solstice Cyclists are a group of mostly body-painted, sometimes nude cyclists who ride ahead of the annual Fremont Solstice Parade in Seattle. What started in the early 1990s as a spontaneous stunt grew into a celebrated tradition of creative body art, self-expression, and joyful community participation. They’re not an official part of the parade, but they’ve become its most iconic and anticipated feature, emphasizing fun, freedom, and body-positive celebration.

Web Comics[]

  • Natural Cassidy by Nda and Brad Brown, has a woman named Cassidy who is a photographer and nature lover who goes on a naked camping trip to Natchitoches Park, and then posts about it on social media.
  • Warden by Groz has several examples of this:
    • Custodian Whisper a half-elf in a elf supremacist empire, is shown to go nude while using her human pets in archery practice.
    • Magister Calhoun of the Eternal Empire, known as the Magus of Sound, after having been defeated by the Enslaver God, becomes his naked pet, a hound. Though reduced as a pet, the former vicious woman on occasion makes herself tea while nude.