leisure sickness

noun

1. a medical condition in which people who have been working become ill with symptoms such as fatigue or muscular pains at a weekend or while on holiday

Example Sentences

But there are ways to lessen your chances of succumbing to leisure sickness.

From Time

This frustrating phenomenon is so common that Dutch researchers have come up with a name for it: “leisure sickness.”

From Time

God sends a time of forced leisure—sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts—and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives, and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator.

From Project Gutenberg

Ad Vingerhoets, a quality-of-life expert at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, calls this a “leisure sickness.”

From Washington Post

Vingerhoets believes leisure sickness — the inability to relax and adapt to the pace of life outside work — to be more prevalent in people living in big cities.

From Washington Post