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Another word for pastime

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Noun
      1. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
      2. Such activities considered as a group:
      3. A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement:
      1. The state of being amused, entertained, or pleased.
      2. Something that amuses, entertains, or pleases.
      1. Refreshment of one's mind or body after work through activity that amuses or stimulates; play.
      2. An activity that provides such refreshment.
      1. The act or an instance of diverting or turning aside; deviation.
      2. Something that distracts the mind and relaxes or entertains.
      3. A maneuver that draws the attention of an opponent away from a planned point of action, especially as part of military strategy.
    See also:

    hobby

    game

    entertainment

    distraction

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Sentence Examples

  • As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.

  • Falconry was long a pastime of the Moslem landlords.

  • The pastime found favour with the Stuarts.

  • BOWLS, the oldest British outdoor pastime, next to archery, still in vogue.

  • The composition of didactic, lyrical and elegiac poetry also was the accomplishment and pastime of an educated dilettante class, the only extant specimens of any interest being some of the Silvae of Statius.

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