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pastime

[pas-tahym, pahs-] / ˈpæsˌtaɪm, ˈpɑs- /


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A recent study by the Economist showed that 10% of Americans now rank soccer as their favorite sport, making it the third most popular behind football and basketball and narrowly edging out America’s pastime, baseball.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Watching these A.I. edits became a pastime for her friend group; they’d share the videos at school and at sleepovers.

From Slate • May 12, 2026

Rubinstein remembers how people who were fond of cross-country skiing – a very popular pastime in winter in Russia – used to take their radios with them out of town, where there were fewer jammers.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The first digitally native generation is resurrecting an old-fashioned American pastime: Shopping at the mall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Still, I knew of families who did read to one another as a regular pastime; perhaps it was not so strange.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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