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spare time

American  

[spair tahym] / ˈspɛər ˈtaɪm /

noun

1. time that is free from the demands of work or other obligations; free time.

   To supplement his income from farming, Mike began making mechanical chicken pluckers in his spare time.

   In her spare time, my aunt does a lot of community volunteer work.

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Etymology

Origin of spare time

First recorded in 1565–75

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spare time

In his spare time - there's not much of it as he's doing an Open University degree in economics - he makes TikTok videos about personal finance and investing.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

I watched this drama the other day from Dam Good Coffee, where I met with two guys who live in the neighborhood and, in their spare time, have been doing a lot of thinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

Noah Neustadt, a Montreal-based user-experience designer for a U.S. software company, spends his spare time browsing farmland listings in British Columbia and Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

In his spare time, he obsesses about where to find the perfect slice of New York-style pizza.Follow him on Twitter @CharlesPassy.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

He’d educated himself in his spare time, had saved his money with the earnestness of a Horatio Alger, started his own newspaper, gone to war, come home, pressed on, moved forward.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Related Words

• convenience
• recreation
• relaxation