pastime
/ˈpɑːstʌɪm
/noun
An activity that someone does regularly for enjoyment rather than work; a hobby: his favourite pastimes were shooting and golf...
- Gone is the person who would engage in a sport or activity as a pastime rather than a profession.
- You are likely to indulge in happy pastimes and pleasurable activity.
- Swimming is a national pastime, and the pools in every city are packed with swimmers.
Synonyms
hobby, leisure activity/pursuit, sport, game, recreation, amusement, avocation, diversion, divertissement, distraction, relaxation, pleasure, entertainment, fun, interest, sideline, enthusiasm, passion, fad, craze, mania, obsession
informal bug, thing
Origin
Late 15th century: from the verb pass1 + time, translating French passe-temps.
- self-disgust
- self-doubt
- self-doubting
- self-dramatisation
- self-dramatization
- self-drive
- self-educated
- self-education
- self-effacement
- self-effacing
- self-effacingly
- self-employed
- self-employment
- self-enclosed
- self-esteem
- self-evaluation
- self-evidence
- self-evident
- self-evidently
- self-examination
- self-examining
- pay for itself
- pay freeze
- pay-gate
- pay grade