When you're a writer, everything you do is work. Also fun. Everything falls into that nebulous "research" category. This includes:

lake picnics
Downton Abbey
medicating the cats
waking at 6:30 am when you're a night person
journal galleys
hours of artist websites
cat snuggle time
gardening in the front yard, without asking the landlord
spontaneous visits home
Baldur's Gate with remote boyfriend
arguing with Public Works
walking to the bakery
walking to the hardware store
Sherlock Holmes
dog park with other people's dogs
potluck dinner meetings
on-campus waterpark
raccoon-watching
sudoku
killing flesh flies
Moby Dick, or, The Whale
sending work to journals
writing

and so on.

Obviously different activities have different weights in terms of productivity.