hobby
(hɒbi )
Word forms: hobbies
countable noun A2
A hobby is an activity that you enjoy doing in your spare time.
My hobbies are letter writing, football, music, photography, and tennis.
Synonyms: pastime, relaxation, leisure pursuit, sideline
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Collocations:
childhood hobby pursue a hobby
She has turned her childhood hobby into a good living, she adds, almost defiantly.
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Improbably, through a series of scholarships, his childhood hobby became his life’s work.
Smithsonian Mag
My suggestion would be to take up a childhood hobby.
Times, Sunday Times
Reading novels had been his main childhood hobby, and became replaced with reading theology.
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He had a childhood hobby of studying rail gauges of the world.
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Where possible, he would include a few days to pursue his hobby of bird-watching and photography at which he was an enthusiast and an acknowledged expert.
Times, Sunday Times
Its adherents have a right to pursue their hobby unmolested.
Times, Sunday Times
The notion of taking time out from your career to travel, study or pursue a hobby appeals to many people.
Times, Sunday Times
She could now pursue her hobby of horticulture.
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He used his retirement to pursue his hobby, azalea propagation.
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Translations:
Chinese: 业余爱好
Japanese: 趣味
- horsewhip
- horse-whip
- horse whisperer
- horsewoman
- horsey
- horsy
- horticultural
- horticultural industry
- horticulturalist
- horticultural society
- horticultural therapy
- horticulture
- hose
- hose down
- hose pipe
- hosepipe
- hose reel
- hosiery
- hospice
- hospice movement
- hospice patient
- hospitable
- hospitable environment
- hospital
- hospital admission