pastime

Noodling is often portrayed as an extreme redneck pastime, but it traditionally had more to do with survival than sport.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

When night fell, a common pastime was dancing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Advocates say an offbeat pastime can tempt a glassy-eyed recruiter to reread your application.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

"You can find all those fossils just loose, you know, in the shingle there, if you're lucky, and many families do, and I think that's such a wonderful pastime."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Mr. Pontellier himself had no particular leaning toward horse racing, and was even rather inclined to discourage it as a pastime, especially when he considered the fate of that bluegrass farm in Kentucky.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Once a desperate 18th-century fight for survival, mudlarking has evolved into one of London’s most coveted viral pastimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

L.A. is also where she filmed her latest movie, “The Dink,” an Apple TV comedy centered on one of her favorite pastimes: pickleball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

While we have counseled that speculating on earnings reports is gambling, it remains one of the most prevalent pastimes in the stock and options market.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez