This paper proposes the term ‘active leisure events’ to ameliorate fragmentation of research concerned with ‘mass-participation’ events primarily aimed at non-elite participants. This literature is characterised by semantically diverse terminology despite such events sharing a range of unifying characteristics centring around an ethos of being open to all; fundamentally encouraging participation in physical activity; embodied, self-propelled mobility; use of re-ordered space; and providing a meeting place for nuanced social worlds. Despite their commonalities, active leisure events may also exhibit considerable inter-event variability. This paper presents an integrative review of existing literature, augmented by practice examples, to support more coherent theoretical and applied research efforts in this space. Based on this integrative review, the ‘active leisure events framework’ is proposed as a conceptual reference point to facilitate coherent and informed discourse, allowing tourism and leisure researchers and practitioners to clearly identify key characteristics of the events they engage with.

本文提出了“积极的休闲活动”一词，以改善主要针对非精英参与者的“大众参与”活动的研究碎片化。尽管此类事件共享一系列以向所有人开放的精神为中心的统一特征，但这些文献的特点是语义上的多样化术语；从根本上鼓励参加体育活动；具身化的、自行式的机动性；使用重新排序的空间；并为微妙的社交世界提供聚会场所。尽管有共性，积极的休闲活动也可能表现出相当大的事件间可变性。本文对现有文献进行了综合回顾，并通过实践示例进行了补充，以支持该领域更连贯的理论和应用研究工作。基于这一综合审查，