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.
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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.
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Its adherents have a right to pursue their hobby unmolested.
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The notion of taking time out from your career to travel, study or pursue a hobby appeals to many people.
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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
- bleachers
- bleaching product
- bleach out
- bleach solution
- bleak
- bleak assessment
- bleak conditions
- bleak economy
- bleak future
- bleak landscape
- bleakly
- bleak moment
- bleakness
- bleak outlook
- bleak period
- bleak picture
- bleak prognosis
- bleak prospect
- bleak reality
- bleak situation
- bleak view
- bleak vision
- bleak winter
- bleary
- bleary eyes