pastime
noun
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Contemporary Examples of pastime
Cooking up scientific explanations of the plagues has been a pastime for years.
And if horse racing endures and survives, it will be the result of an overdue focus on the august animal that defines the pastime.
Let it be a hobby, a pastime, a social thing—like it used to be, like it always was.
As a pastime, bow hunting has a more refined history than other modes of recreational animal killing.
People like to brag about their connections in D.C. It's a pastime for some.
Historical Examples of pastime
The wooing on Shakespeare's side was nothing but pastime, though it led to marriage.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
Discussion was, indeed, a pastime in which the major never indulged.
Roden's CornerHenry Seton Merriman
Mr. Dowling should have found other forms of exercise and pastime.
Alice AdamsBooth Tarkington
They were trailing a hot scent, a pastime as well as a work that was their life.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
The one is a pastime; the other”––he paused and caught his breath––“a passion!
The StrollersFrederic S. Isham