Hobbies [noun]

But the world, Auberon, the real world, is not run on these hobbies.

He is a great lover of books and gardening—two antithetical hobbies—which are charming in themselves, and healthily counteractive.

Now, next I want to say some things about having dinner at night, for that is one of my hobbies.

Her hobbies are reading science fiction novels, going to the opera and listening to folk music.

Law becomes thus a sort of anthology of various existing crowd-hobbies.

Woe to the old if they have no impersonal interests, no convictions, no public causes to advance, no tastes or hobbies!

Yet there are many hobbies which demand a certain amount of concentration without making too great a call on the mental faculties.

Now, if their assertions deal with their hobbies many a silly thing is taken at its face value, and that value is counterfeit.

During this lecture upon one of his favorite hobbies, the low voice of The Dreamer was vibrant with earnestness.

Money had always flowed freely from French coffers for this favorite of all hobbies.