Hobbies are something we do in our free time to relax ourselves and our soul. These are the things we do that bring us immense joy.
Every person is different so everyone has different hobbies and interests. There are many kinds of hobbies and we select one of them as per our will and interest. People adopt something as a hobby when they are good at it and enjoy doing it.
Some people love shopping, going out with friends, spending money, others love to stay at home and watch movies or read novels in lonely time to free mind of study pressures.
My favorite hobby is painting; I have been doing it since I was 10 years old. However my best friend’s hobby is completely different, she loves playing piano and singing different songs. My mother has interest in cooking and baking. Her hobby is baking unique types of cakes or cooking different dishes every day.
We have a prepared a list of English words to help you properly give a name to your hobby or interest.
Hobbies and Interests Vocabulary Words
Following is a list of common types of hobbies and interests for your leisure time:
| Shopping | Swimming | Reading |
| Singing | Cooking | Teaching |
| Drawing | Painting | Baking |
| Hiking | Cycling | Dancing |
| Riding A Horse | Flying Kites | Playing Games |
| Scuba Diving | To Do Sports | Playing Piano |
| Writing Poetry | Camping | Boating |
| Helping Others | Bowling | Watching Movies |
| Collecting Cars | Collecting Stamps | River Rafting |
| Playing Tennis | Sketching | Sewing |
| Yoga | Planting Trees | Travelling |
| Fishing | Running | Gardening |
| Doing Puzzles | Playing Cards | Exercising |
| Watching TV | Driving | Walking |
| Ice Skating | Listening To Music | Playing Guitar |
| Taking Photos | Collecting Coins | Boxing |
| Gardening | Playing Cards | Skateboarding |
Let’s see some activities with their explanation in brief:
- Acting: The art or occupation of performing fictional roles in plays, films, or television
- Archery: Sport where we shooting with a arrows using a bow, especially at a target
- Astronomy: It is the study of objects and matter outside the earth’s atmosphere and of their physical and chemical characteristics
- Backpacking: Solo trip you enjoy with backpack
- Badminton: We have in school the indoor badminton court
- Baseball: The baseball is very tough to play
- Basketball: A fast paced game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed at each end of the court
- Beekeeping: The profession of owning and breeding bees for their honey
- Birdwatching: Observing birds in their natural environment for Pleasure
- Blogging: Blog writing is very interesting as it keeps you occupied
- Board Games: We enjoy playing various board games
- Boating: Rowing or sailing in boats as a sport
- Breakdancing: Breakdancing is an art
- Calligraphy: Learning calligraphy is an art
- Candle Making: This is an art of making candles
- Canoeing: The sport or activity of paddling a light, narrow boat in a river.
- Car Racing: I enjoy watching car race
- Card Games: A game in which playing cards are used.
- Carpentry: There is a carpentry work which is pending since long
- Caving: The sport or pastime of exploring caves for adventure
- Cheerleading: There are cheerleaders in every field sports
- Chess: We play chess during week ends
- Climbing: The sport or activity of climbing mountains or cliffs for thrill
- Collecting: Bring or gather together
- Coloring: Change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it
- Crafting: The activity or hobby of making decorative articles by hand
- Creative Writing: Writing, typically fiction or poetry, which displays imagination or invention
- Cricket: An open-air game played on a large grass field with ball, bats, and two wickets, between teams of eleven players
- Cross Stitch: A stitch formed of two stitches crossing each other; used for creating patterns
- Currency Collecting: The study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects
- Darts: A popular indoor game in which pointed missiles with feather or plastic flights are thrown at a circular board marked with numbers in order to score points
- Djing: Play recorded music on radio or at a club or party
- Dominoes: Everyone will fall over like a row of dominoes
- Embroidery: The art or pastime of embroidering cloth using different types of stitches.
- Fencing: The sport of fighting with swords, especially foils, épées, or sabres, according to a set of rules, in order to score points against an opponent
- Flower Arranging: She runs courses in flower arranging
- Flying: Moving through the air using various types of equipments
- Football: We watch with interest the football match
- Furniture Building: Making of something is the act or process of producing or creating it.
- Furniture Repairing: The work of taking a furniture part that has sustained some relatively minor damage and bringing it back to a condition
- Golf: My father is golf player
- Gymnastics: It is a performance of Systematic Exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination.
- Handball: A game similar to fives, in which the ball is hit with the hand in a walled court
- Hockey: Hockey is a field game
- Homebrewing Wine Or Beer: My father is very keen to make homebrewing wine
- Horse Riding: The sport or activity of riding horses
- Hunting: The activity of hunting wild animals or game.
- Indoor Gardening : A greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
- Jewellery Making: Jewelery making is an expensive hobby
- Jigsaw Puzzles: A puzzle consisting of a picture printed on cardboard or wood and cut into various pieces of different shapes that have to be fitted together to form a correct picture
- Journaling: Habit of Writing your thoughts and feelings to understand them more clearly
- Karate: Includes a system of unarmed combat using the hands and feet to deliver and block blows
- Kite Flying: The action of flying a kite on a string
- Knitting: It is fun watching your mother doing the knitting work
- Lacrosse: A team game in which the ball is thrown, carried, and caught with a long-handled stick having a curved L-shaped or triangular frame at one end with a piece of shallow netting in the angle.
- Language Learning: It is interesting to learn different languages
- Laser Tag: A recreational shooting sport where players use infrared-emitting light guns to tag defined targets
- Mahjong: A popular Chinese game played by four people, with 136 or 144 rectangular pieces called tiles
- Majic: Love watching magic
- Martial Art: Various sports, which originated chiefly in India and spread across Japan, Korea, and China as forms of self-defence or attack, such as judo, karate, and kendo.
- Meditation: Early morning and late evening meditation relaxes the mind
- Metal Detecting: using a metal detector to find buried coins or archaeological artifacts
- Model Building: Developing a probabilistic model to best describe the relationship between the dependent and independent variables
- Modelling: The work of a fashion model
- Nail Art: A creative way to paint, decorate, enhance, and embellish nails
- Netball: A seven-a-side game in which goals are scored by throwing a ball so that it falls through a netted hoop
- Origami: The popular Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures for fun.
- Outdoor Swimming: A swimming discipline which takes place in outdoor bodies of water such as open oceans, lakes, and rivers
- Painting: The action or skill of using colors, either in a picture or as decoration
- Photography: The occupation of taking and processing photographs
- Playing A Musical Instrument: At home we play a musical instrument
- Playing Drums: Drumming is the sound or feeling of continuous beating
- Playing Flute: To play a flute
- Playing Tabla: An Indian musical instrument consisting of a pair of small drums
- Podcasting: The practice of using the internet to make digital recordings of broadcasts available for downloading to a computer or mobile device.
- Polo: A game of Eastern origin resembling hockey, played on horseback with a long-handled mallet
- Pool: A swimming pool.
- Rugby: A team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand
- Sandcastle Building: A model building of sand, often made by children on the beach
- Scrapbooking: The activity or hobby of making scrapbooks.
- Shooting: The action or practice of shooting with a gun
- Skating: The action or activity of gliding on ice skates or roller skates as a sport or pastime
- Skiing: The action of travelling over snow on skis, especially as a sport or recreation
- Snooker: A game played with cues on a billiard table in which the players use a cue ball (white) to pocket the other balls
- Snorkelling: The activity or pastime of swimming using a snorkel
- Snow Boarding: The sport or pastime of sliding downhill on a snowboard
- Squash: A game in which two players use rackets to hit a small, soft rubber ball against the walls of a closed court.
- Stamp Collecting: The collection and study of postage stamps as objects of interest or value
- Story Telling: The activity of telling or writing stories
- Sunbathing: The activity of sitting or lying in the sun, especially to tan the skin
- Surfing: The sport or pastime of riding a wave towards the shore while standing or lying on a surfboard
- Table Tennis: An indoor game based on tennis, played with small bats and a ball bounced on a table divided by a net.
- Teaching: The occupation, profession, or work of a teacher
- Tennis: I play tennis in my school
- Train Spotting: The practice of watching trains, particularly as a hobby, with the aim of noting distinctive characteristics
- Video Gaming: A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display.
- Volleyball: A game for two teams, usually of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent’s side of the court
- Water Polo: Water polo is fun a game
- Weight Training: Physical training that involves lifting weights
- Wrestling: The sport or activity of grappling with an opponent and trying to throw or hold them down on the ground, typically according to a code of rules
People have water sports as their hobby to that include scuba diving, surfing, and jet skiing and boating.
We can even earn from our hobbies, paintings or cakes can be sold as well. People have started their side businesses utilizing their skills.
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