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synonyms for hobbies

  • amusement
  • art
  • avocation
  • craft
  • diversion
  • fad
  • fun
  • obsession
  • occupation
  • specialty
  • sport
  • bag
  • craze
  • distraction
  • fancy
  • game
  • interest
  • kick
  • play
  • quest
  • relaxation
  • schtick
  • shot
  • sideline
  • thing
  • vagary
  • weakness
  • whim
  • whimsy
  • divertissement
  • favorite occupation
  • labor of love
  • leisure activity
  • leisure pursuit
  • pet topic
On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hobbies, such as: art, specialty, avocation, diversion, craft, and amusement.

antonyms for hobbies

MOST RELEVANT
  • entertainment
  • vocation
  • work
  • boredom
  • dislike
  • hate
  • profession
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How to use hobbies in a sentence

But the world, Auberon, the real world, is not run on these hobbies.
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILLGILBERT K. CHESTERTON
He is a great lover of books and gardening—two antithetical hobbies—which are charming in themselves, and healthily counteractive.
HEROES OF THE TELEGRAPHJ. MUNRO
Now, next I want to say some things about having dinner at night, for that is one of my hobbies.
LIVING ON A LITTLECAROLINE FRENCH BENTON
Her hobbies are reading science fiction novels, going to the opera and listening to folk music.
THE COLORS OF SPACEMARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
Law becomes thus a sort of anthology of various existing crowd-hobbies.
THE BEHAVIOR OF CROWDSEVERETT DEAN MARTIN
Woe to the old if they have no impersonal interests, no convictions, no public causes to advance, no tastes or hobbies!
A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDRENGEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Yet there are many hobbies which demand a certain amount of concentration without making too great a call on the mental faculties.
NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS AND HOW TO AVOID THEMCHARLES DAVID MUSGROVE
Now, if their assertions deal with their hobbies many a silly thing is taken at its face value, and that value is counterfeit.
CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGYHANS GROSS
During this lecture upon one of his favorite hobbies, the low voice of The Dreamer was vibrant with earnestness.
THE DREAMERMARY NEWTON STANARD
Money had always flowed freely from French coffers for this favorite of all hobbies.
THE ROMANCE OF AIRCRAFTLAWRENCE YARD SMITH
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