The article offers an account of current perspectives defining the field known in the Czech Republic as the Pedagogics of Leisure [literal translation], and does so with special attention to concepts developing in the English-speaking countries (especially Great Britain and the USA). More detailed study of the Anglo-American concepts of leisure studies, leisure sciences, leisure education etc.. is turning out to be not only important simply from the point of view of terminology in the field, but to be leading to critical reflection on the current definition of the pedagogics of leisure in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and on the present development of this discipline in the context of the transformations of German Freizeitpädagogik.