"Recovery" after a sprint distance?

x2 for me.  I like to go for an easy swim as my first workout post-race, especially if it is hot and humid.

Depends on your level. Some who are training for longer distances do Sprints as their workout for that day- like a formal brick workout! Thus not much recovery needed.

Usually beer and pizza. 

I think this is more accurate.  Even if you are doing HIM/IM distance races, if you go all out B's to the wall on a sprint you can still get to the point where it's a good idea to rest/recover the day after.  If however, you're doing IM training and you do a sprint race at your normal long distance pace, I guess it's a training event, not a race. 

most of the time, i'll go by feel.   I'll usually try to do a short bike ride or swim (or both) at easier efforts as I feel better after.

If I don't feel like working out the day after, then I don't!

However, if you are training for something else (in my case, my first marathon), I'll probably do an easy long run the day after as I can't burn the weekend training opportunity (Saturday race), and do my swim/bike easy workout on Monday.

This is certainly true, but depending on the person's fitness level they can recover very quickly and be ready to continue training as normal the next day. I love to do Sprint distance races and I push myself pretty hard, but by the next day I'm ready to continue with my training plan for HIM.

Your body, your recovery.  No one on here can give you any insight to that without knowing you.

Some people need a full rest day after a sprint triathlon, some people do their long run the day after.  Some people just lightly do a spring with minimal effort, some people go full bore.

Personally, I take a full rest day (as in - 0 activity) after every competition I do (whether it be a 10k, sprint tri, oly, whatever).  Unless it's a 5k or an obstacle course where I am doing it more for fun than anything else - I'll take a break the next day.  But that's because I go 100% when I do those races.  If not, I'll just do my workout as I normally would.

As others have said, it's very individual.  For me at least, the longer I've been doing this the less recovery I need from a sprint.  When I started out a few years ago, I'd be sore for at least a day, maybe two.  However, two weekends ago I did a sprint and after the awards I went for a 5.5 hour ride.

Sprints take a ton out of me.  It's such an intense short effort and drains me.  I'll workout the next day but usually my body wants to do nothing other than a recovery ride.

I use a swim as my first workout after a race, but i usually give myself 1-2 days full off before that.

This was included in my "if you feel like".  Everyone responds differently to a given stress.  And everyhing factors inot determining that stress--fitness, conditions, effort, duration, etc.  There's no single magic answer.