The debate in the study of leisure about the proper context in which to locate leisure continues. There have been three models in the debate in the study of leisure. They are the functionalist model, CCCS traditions and feminism. Interestingly, the three moments in the study of leisure three the concept of culture and leisure in unsatisfactory ways. Whether it be expressed from the functionalist, neo-Marxist or feminist camps, the general view is that the Homo Faber model is the starting point for enquiry. Especially \'edgework\' such as speed racing, moutain climbing, sea diving, excessive drinking, and \'liminal leisure\' such as Medieval Carnival, the Beat Culture of the 1950s, the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s has been marginalized in the study of leisure since postwar. This paper examines the meaning of leisure again and criticizes a voluntaristic approach to leisure through surplus energy, edgework, liminal leisure in the spectrum of leisure studies. This is the groundwork for grasping a variety of aspects in the spectrum of leisure.