(n.) That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
(v. i.) To sport; to amuse one's self.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
(2) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
(3) Sea kayaking, wild swimming, rock climbing, mountain biking and hang gliding are hugely popular pastimes.
(4) If the technique of swinging the golf club is correctly employed, golf can be considered as a low-injury rate pastime.
(5) The relative frequency of accidental shooting deaths is the lowest recorded, a surprising finding in a state where hunting is such a common pastime.
(6) Some claim that the drug is harmless and that making it illegal would deny them a harmless pastime.
(7) 10.38am BST "Counterfactual history is a satisfying pastime, especial when things go very wrong - as happened, of course, to the Spanish," says Charles Antaki.
(8) We slightly wince, on behalf of those more tightly bound to laborious necessity, when we read that "to maintain one's self on this earth is not hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely", and that "by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living".
(9) Major areas of disability and handicap included; household management, ambulation, sleep and rest, recreation and pastimes and work.
(10) Yet the stereotype that games are a pastime for adolescent boys is an enduring one, and one that is perpetuated by the aggressive marketing of many big-budget games.
(11) Such experiments often served as social pastimes, but they yielded many publications on medical aspects of static electricity.
(12) Why media-bashing should be such a popular pastime among key Republicans is relatively easily explained by reference to opinion surveys which suggest that the politicians are merely pandering to the prejudices of rightwing voters.
(13) Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's rightwing prime minister, has been busy pursuing his favourite pastime this week – having it both ways.
(14) The exhibition showcases the tastes and pastimes of this middle market, largely by means of the printed images, books and handbills that advertised and explained them.
(15) It is, perhaps, strange that after all they have been through, the Spalls should have chosen so strenuous – and potentially hazardous – a pastime.
(16) Four years later, writer Douglas S Powell penned in American City & County magazine that the American pastime was “rapidly becoming a municipal pastime”.
(17) In the epidemiological setting, the subscales representing Ambulation, Body care and movement, Emotional behaviour, Social interaction, Sleep and rest, Home management and Recreation and pastimes, all showed discriminatory capacity.
(18) Suggestions are made to stop this pastime taking place.
(19) Finally, nursing was interpreted as a multidimensional system of assistance and support, including the finding of meaningful pastimes and the teaching of the skills needed for independent life.
(20) Kayaking, hiking, fishing and windsurfing are typical pastimes for the domestic tourism market here, but like everywhere in Uruguay, outside the short peak season (the last week of December to mid February), you can easily find you have the place to yourself.