美國最受歡迎的消遣活動毫無懸念

You could say baseball has struck out as America's favorite pastime, because Americans would apparently rather watch TV than head to the ballpark.

Most Americans prefer to fill their spare time watching television than doing just about anything else, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Nearly 80 percent of people living in the United States are watching TV on any given day. Television viewing swallows up more than half of all the time Americans spend on sports and leisure activities, according to data from the BLS's American Time Use Survey.

From 2013 to 2017, people 15 and older spent about 2 hours and 46 minutes a day watching TV — 55.2 percent of their total spare time — when they could have been doing pretty much anything else they wanted.

That TV time includes watching recorded TV shows, live programming, DVDs, and streaming content on TVs, computers, and portable devices. It does not include time spent watching a film in a movie theater.

Men watch about a half-hour more TV than women each day.

Older people and the unemployed watch the most TV, while parents with small children watch the least. Older people and the unemployed spent the most time watching TV. Americans over the age of 65 are the nation's biggest couch potatoes. They spend the most time — 4 and a half hours per day — in front of the tube.

TV watching also varies by geography. Residents in the American South are among the nation's most ardent TV viewers. People living in several of the Rocky Mountain states and in the Northeast tend to watch the least.你可以說棒球是美國人最喜愛的消遣，因爲美國人顯然喜歡看電視（棒球賽）而不是前往賽場。

根據美國勞工統計局的數據，大多數美國人喜歡在閒暇時間看電視而不是做其他任何事情。

生活在美國的人中每天都有近80％的人在看電視。根據勞工局的美國人時間利用調查數據顯示，美國人在體育和休閒活動上花費的時間有一半以上是在看電視上。

從2013年到2017年，15歲及以上的人每天看電視大約2小時46分鐘，這佔他們總閒暇時間的55.2％，而他們可以用這些時間做幾乎任何他們想做的事。

電視時間包括在電視、電腦和移動設備上觀看預錄的電視節目、現場直播節目、DVD和流媒體內容，但不包括在電影院觀看電影所花費的時間。

數據還顯示，男性每天看電視的時間比女性多半小時。

老年人和失業者看電視的人數最多，而有小孩的父母看電視的人數最少。65歲以上的美國人是坐在沙發上看電視時間最多的人羣，平均每天4個半小時。

看電視的時間也因地理位置而有不同。美國南部的居民是全美最熱心的電視觀衆之一，而居住在落基山脈州和東北部的人們往往看得最少。