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pastime

noun as in leisure activity

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Example Sentences

This is not speed chess, to reference Reeves’s favourite pastime.

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Baseball may be known as “America’s pastime”, but its biggest star is from Japan.

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Hugely popular with fellow gardeners across Scotland, he described the pastime as "part of the fabric of our lives".

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We’ve become accustomed to assume that such landmarks are abandoned — a bittersweet reminder of a forgotten era when going to films was the national pastime.

Piloting a private plane is obviously an expensive pastime, so it may be natural for the words “flying community” to conjure images of private jets and caviar.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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