The researcher carried out this research with the aim of identifying recreational hobbies and their relationship with emotional intelligence for workers in the field of sports recreation at Mansoura University, The researcher used the descriptive approach, and the Recreational Hobbies and Affective Intelligence scale was applied from the researcher's design to collect data, and the study was applied to a sample of( 225) students from Mansoura University for the basic experience and (50) for the exploratory experience. The most important results were the perception and awareness of most university employees of the concept of recreational hobbies The activity of browsing the Internet sites attracts the interest of most Employees, as it came at the forefront of the arrangement of recreational hobby activities, the presence of a medium level of recreational hobby activities and the emotional intelligence of the Employees, and the presence of a positive correlation between the practice of recreational hobbies and the emotional intelligence of the Employees.