Leisure activities became a human need and provide a myriad of meanings that can be read throughout space and time. As a social activity it consumes and develops in space and for individuals. In this article we intend to address the main similarities between tourism approaches, leisure and geography, by analyzing the theories, procedures and the nature of research. We portray the state of the art in top researches involving Leisure and Geography and searching for contributions in other areas. The theoretical framework is worked in the light of some of the most common geography concepts such as place, landscape and region, drawing opportunities of study for each concept. It articulates, through the most common theoretical-conceptual constructions in other areas, especially in the contributions of sociology, anthropology and economics. Part of the article is a series of proposals to encourage studies in different subfields of geography, including Economic Geography, Geography of Tourism and Cultural Geography. By drawing parallels between leisure and the different branches of Geographical knowledge, it culminates in a schematic proposal for studies of Geography and Leisure through the synthesis of categories and a theoretical framework proposal for each of them. It concludes with considerations about the potential and limitations of the studies in Geography having leisure as an object.3791109