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hobby
1[ hob-ee ]
noun
- an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation:
Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- a child's hobbyhorse.
- Archaic. a small horse.
hobby
2[ hob-ee ]
noun
- a small Old World falcon, Falco subbuteo, formerly flown at such small game as larks.
Hobby
3[ hob-ee ]
noun
- Oveta Culp [kuhlp], 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
hobby
1/ ˈhɒbɪ /
noun
- an activity pursued in spare time for pleasure or relaxation
- archaic.a small horse or pony
- short for hobbyhorse
- an early form of bicycle, without pedals
hobby
2/ ˈhɒbɪ /
noun
- any of several small Old World falcons, esp the European Falco subbuteo, formerly used in falconry
Derived Forms
- ˈhobbyist, noun
Other Words From
- hob·by·ist noun
- hob·by·less adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of hobby1
Origin of hobby2
Word History and Origins
Origin of hobby1
Origin of hobby2
Idioms and Phrases
- ride a hobby, to concern oneself excessively with a favorite notion or activity. Also ride a hobbyhorse.
Example Sentences
To come up with an experimental platform that might provide some answers, Irvine drew on one of his hobbies.
It’s not the hobby, it’s the people who do the hobby who make the tribe.
When asked about her hobbies outside of politics, she immediately mentions spending time with her kids, although she laughs uproariously while adding that “it’s sometimes hard to make time, which makes me probably like every other mom ever.”
Since coronavirus upended consumer behavior — people’s life, hobbies, what they care about, who they are with, is all in flux — advertisers are groping for information on new and existing audiences.
My other hobby is that in the spring of 2019 I got into weightlifting, which is not a sentence that I ever expected myself to say.
Also, the next Hobby Lobbys, female Kurdish fighters and more.
While the Hobby Lobby decision may have lost its cultural appeal, it still carries weight in the federal court system.
They are for corporations like Hobby Lobby, and vast hospital networks, and, yes, adoption agencies.
The remote controlled flying craft has gone from covert military ops to a communal backyard hobby.
If you really think about it, is this not just some grand hobby?
A strenuous worker, Mr. Johnstone, like most men who have no hobby, did not long survive his retirement from active business life.
The old fellow used to frequent the Quarter in summer, years ago—it was his hobby.
Hobby horses gaily prancing, Bats and Bowls and Maypole dancing.
"The Army's rotten for want of service," grumbled Williams, following out his own pet hobby.
Spiders at present are his hobby, and the note-book is filling up with columns of small figures.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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