respite ,
rest ****
relief ***
rest period

You may need to plan at least one rest period every day.

"What are you doing running around during your rest period?"

Their rest period was not over yet; something must have happened.

However, our rest period was over before we knew it.

The old man cut short their period of rest and they went on while the sun was still high.

A long period of rest over the summer seemed to be all that was required.

But we did not set out at once, taking rather a rest period, with one of us, turn about, on guard.

That's easy if you think of winter as a rest period.

Would I not care to have a period of rest before the operation?

There are ever so many more house plants that need a rest period.