(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.
Recreation
Definition:
(n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(2) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(3) Employment problems, amount of pain, and social and recreational difficulties were assessed.
(4) Several reports have suggested that staphylococci, and especially Staphylococcus aureus, are useful indicators of pollution of recreational waters.
(5) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(6) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(7) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a recently popularized recreational drug, although some have advocated its psychotherapeutic potential.
(8) Accidents from sports and recreation were the cause in 23% of the cases.
(9) More men than women reported high rates of sports and recreational activities, gardening, and do-it-yourself.
(10) An inverse Fourier transform is then used to recreate the new time domain representation, which has been appropriately filtered for extraneous noise.
(11) Cases were more likely to have worked in the following industries: mining, paper and wood, medicine and science, and entertainment and recreation.
(12) To determine whether recreational levels of training (jogging) will provoke short luteal phase menstrual cycles, a prospective study was conducted.
(13) Benzene concentrations of 2.5, 14, and 250 ppm should be acceptable for residential, industrial, and recreational soils, respectively.
(14) The present results suggest that, although we observed a larger effect with occupational activity than with recreational activity, middle-aged men may reduce their risk of colorectal cancer if they exercise when they are not working.
(15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(16) Obama may have been deliberately recreating one of Mandela's own most useful gestures in his moment of human contact with the president of Cuba .
(17) Similar applies to the new standards of the TAL 1974 and that recommendations of the "Deutscher Bäderverband" to estimate health resorts, recreation areas and mineral springs.
(18) The embryotoxic levels of these solvents needed in culture were higher than blood levels likely to occur in the human following industrial exposure or recreational abuse.
(19) Relationships between the severity and frequency of low back pain and referred lower extremity pain and other variables such as occupation, recreation, age, sex and predominant working posture was analysed.
(20) The results showed that VCF valued, in order of priority: TWs, University library privileges, faculty parking, photocopying service, clinical faculty awards, use of recreational facilities, and faculty discounts.