To have no idea what people do on Boxing Day?

Lazy day with a lie in till 9-10am. Nothing set in stone, though, as I sometimes host family for dinner, in which case there's no lie in!.

I usually go to the shops at some point. When dc were little they'd play with their new toys/ have help to build them, etc.

We always have some small gifts on the tree for the dc and us to open.

Food wise: we always have cold meats, mashed potatoes, and branston pickle/piccalilli with leftover veg. It's my favourite meal, actually.

Then we watch films, play board games, and my dc have my 'once a year homemade hot chocolate' (made with a few bars of chocolate and a pot of double cream, plus my secret ingredients), served with all the toppings.

Boxing Day is my absolute favourite day of the year and I start looking forward to it in October! As others have said, all the stress and fuss of Christmas is over and I can have a truly relaxing day and do whatever I please. This generally involves panettone for breakfast, a country walk at some point, maybe followed by a stop at a pub for a quick drink before home, lying on the sofa reading and watching movies, maybe a late afternoon snooze, picking at leftovers fairly constantly, turkey sandwiches and chocolates for dinner. Bliss.

We chill out on Boxing Day, play/set up all the toys, go for a walk maybe and then I put out a buffet for everyone to snack on as and when they please.

Love Boxing Day! Lye in, long bath, clean pyjamas, telly (which is always better than Christmas Day) and lots of lovely left overs.

Hands up I'm a Scot who didn't know there was a tradition of Morris Dancing on Boxing Day.

Is this in a hall or town center.

Is that a whole of England thing or certain regions?

I love a MN school day.🙂

Sleep in.
Kids play with toys.
If weather is ok, we will go for a walk to get some fresh air. We are past the winter solstice at this point, so we have the prospect of lighter evenings ahead - yay!
May have bath. Watch some telly.
having a wbole day with no plans is marvellous for resting.

Ice skating, hot chocolate and café lunch, home to play with Christmas presents, board games, film and snacky snacks.

Boxing Day is now the most relaxing day, read the book(s) I was given, graze the leftovers and sip nice wine (Cremant) through the day.

We leave presents from friends/extended family u til Boxing Day. So it’s another round of presents and then usually a games and film day.
this year we are doing a second Christmas lunch with my FIL as he didn’t want to do breakfast on Christmas Day. Then my family are joining for games in the evening

DH often goes out to the football ( the eldest DC will go too this year) other than that its a chill out day playing with the dcs Xmas gifts and usually involves a trip to the park dc are 5 and 8. Lunch is usually something like baguette and crackers with cheese pate and leftover meats if we've done xmas dinner, tea is always a buffet but sometimes we host my in-laws (parents plus sister and kids) and sometimes sister in law hosts.
DH and I go out on the evening with a group of friends some of which we only see on boxing Day its such a long standing tradition that there's not even any pre planning, we all just turn up around 730/8

Completely this.

We relax! Christmas Day is quite hectic in the sense there's the presents to open and the meal takes a lot of prep (and a long time to eat and a long time to clear up). Boxing Day is my favourite as it's the first day of proper relaxation after the full on hectic Christmas period (all the prep, the present buying and wrapping, the cards, the cooking and baking, fitting in additional socialising lovely as it is, which all comes at the busiest time of the year for me at work). So to me Boxing Day is completely blissful - get up whenever we want, laze around, drink coffee in bed reading a good book (usually get a new book for Christmas), go for a walk, watch Christmas TV or a film, and all the lovely leftovers to eat without needing to prepare much or do any cooking.

The weeks before Christmas Day are so busy and then the day it’s self is also busy. We use Boxing Day for down time. Sometimes a walk, the kids will sleep in in the morning, might walk to town a look at sale bargains and then have a drink in the pub or get some lunch out. Eat leftovers. So nice because you can do anything you want, there is no expected format.

I'll be out playing melodeon for Morris dancers.

Amazed at the amount of people who actually like to go for a walk. With me if I have to go anywhere more than half a km from my house I take the car. Never really got why people want to walk or what they get out of it. I think I'd rather clean the toilet to be honest.

This really - it’s the day you spend enjoying each other, setting up presents, leisurely watching family movies and decompressing after all the build up to christmas. Our ILs will be here as they travel down to stay, but it’s still a mellow day and the day I enjoy most, really.

For years I worked. Now I am semi retired.

Go for a walk, swim and spa at my gym. If I am away I may walk up a mountain.

I only ever do Xmas day traditions. It is just another day after all.

A friend goes to the races.
My son is going to a football match.
I am going to chill out and eat leftovers.

Walk the dogs (now sadly only one dog) on the beach. Everyone is very jolly and there is a tradition of a Xmas tree decorated with flotsam and jetsam standing in the dunes. Might swim if it’s not raining.

Then all the leftovers and Xmas telly.

I hope you make some lovely new traditions, OP.

Same as any weekend Sunday.

Housework!

Go and watch football

Nothing. Hang around the house recovering from the hangover. I didn't know people actually went anywhere on Boxing Day? I could never leave the house being too hungover. Its just a day for sleeping as late as you want (often mid-morning to lunchtime) and just watching tv hanging around the house. Maybe hair of the dog... Nibblies, leftovers. Never thought anyone did anything on Boxing Day.

spend about 6 hours doing a car journey that normally takes 4

Watch the football, will probably go for brunch. I might suggest the cinema to DS. My family will go to football and we are seeing them on Xmas Day, in laws are abroad for the whole two weeks so no other family to see.

I find it can feel a bit flat after Xmas Eve/Xmas Day so I like to have a plan to do something even if it’s to go for a walk and a coffee.

Eat eat eat, play games, watch stuff, don't get dressed 😍