fêtes in English:

Enjoy your holidays.

Taking advantage of the holidays, I returned home to Nagoya.

Workaholics view holidays as a waste of time.

One of the reasons some workers hesitate to use their paid holidays is that they fear unfavorable reactions from their colleagues or superiors.

We tend to think that our time is our own only on Sundays and holidays.

He availed himself of the 'off-and-on' holidays to visit his native country.

During the holidays, some university students go to Africa as volunteers and help to perfect local wildlife conservation.

My husband tells me he goes to work even on Sundays and holidays but sometimes I suspect there's something fishy about his story.

About 50 percent of the firms in Japan have acknowledged the necessity of giving their workers longer holidays, and think summer holidays are needed to give their workers both mental and physical refreshment.

During the Golden Week holidays, many volunteers went to the quake and tsunami-hit areas in Tohoku.

Summer vacation is near. Can you think of a good place for the holidays?

In England in the Middle Ages, whole towns played football on certain holidays, sometimes with as many as 500 players at one time.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

In some companies, employees use paid holidays for their summer vacations.

Sea Day is one of the Japanese national holidays celebrated on the third Monday in July.