Is this another "lawyer question"? The synonym of to rest is stop, halt, standstill. Certainly it does not mean woodworking! Pleasure doesn't even come into the sabbath equation. That is an entirely personal innovation to treat the Lord's Day as one's personal day, a time we devote to us and not to God.
Think about it: if we say we love God with all our heart, mind and soul, and we pursue personal pleasure activities on His day, what message does that send? Out of, say 16 hours of waking time, we devote 1 hour to God in church and 15 hours on us, we can safely say that a Sunday is 93.75% our day and 6.25% the Lord's Day in our book. Pretty telling, isn't it?
In the Law, Israel was to do two things on sabbath; stay in their tents and feast. The priests were to offer the sacrifices. I could not find in the Law where Israel was to come to the tabernacle or the temple for bible study or worship. Perhaps you have a reference.
That is a very illustrative point.
I do know however, several Bears fans here that are religious in their observance of Sunday football.
So, then what would a proper Sunday look like? God constructed us to require downtime for our mental well being. For some, that can take the form of sitting motionless on a couch all day. But for others, sitting still and doing nothing would actually be work. They would hate it. For them, rest takes the form of doing something they enjoy. I don't know why this would be a problem for God, or why He couldn't understand the truth of the phenomena.