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Definition of Hobby

Hobby

A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

Alt. of Hobbyhorse

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Hobby Quotations

Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
Dave Barry

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
Lee Trevino

Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
Zac Efron

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
Gabrielle Reece

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Linus Torvalds

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
River Phoenix

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Dean Kamen

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.
Sandra Bullock

Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.
Krist Novoselic

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
Satyajit Ray

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
Brian Lumley

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.
Sophia Bush

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
Duane G. Carey

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
Ursula Andress

But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
Cliff Richard

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
Mason Cooley

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
Brandy Norwood

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.
Tom Berenger

Painting is a hobby for me.
Renee O'Connor

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.
Jim Sullivan

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
John McCarthy

It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business.
Phil Katz

Life's a hobby.
Joshua Lederberg

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.
Chris Moneymaker

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.
Kimbra

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Hobby Translations

hobby in Dutch is hobby
hobby in German is Liebhaberei
hobby in Hungarian is hobbi
hobby in Italian is hobby
hobby in Portuguese is passatempo
hobby in Spanish is aficion
hobby in Swedish is hobby

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