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ABSTRACT:
A rationalist approach to understanding adult play is discussed in this paper. Adult play needs to be understood as symbolic (requiring a highly evolved conceptual - functioning organism); as psychologically rather than biologically new and stimulating; and extending over the entire life span. Sky-diving is examined as a high risk sport in which modern adults grow to play. Suggests that adult forms of play have been relatively ignored in the literature. Proposes that rationalistic assumptions are important for an understanding of adult play and that such play needs to be understood as symbolic, as psychologically, rather than biologically new and stimulating, and as extending over the entire life span. Presents data from sky divers to determine the degree to which sky diving is perceived as play by those who engage in it. An analysis of the structure of play and the perception of play is employed in the comparison between non-jumpers, beginning jumpers and experienced jumpers. Sky diving is examined as a high risk sport in which modern adults play.
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