(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.
Teenager
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
(3) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(4) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(5) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(6) As a young teenager I was obsessed with sex: to be held in a man's arms would confirm that I was a woman.
(7) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(8) It is recommended that further research be directed toward uncovering the emotional and cognitive resources of teenage mothers rather than focusing on their more obvious weaknesses.
(9) As regards hepatitis A, the study of the 2 groups was completed by a sero-epidemiological survey of 509 children and teenagers aged from 1 to 18 years.
(10) These teenagers were classified as heavy drinkers; the males knew less about alcohol, and had different attitudes to its use than their peers.
(11) The chief source of VD information for all teenagers was friends.
(12) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(13) This is based on data from teenagers and young adults aged 12-20 years.
(14) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(15) The regulator defines teenagers as aged between 12 and 15, with adults 16-years-old and above.
(16) The majority of the teenagers were between 16 and 19 years old at the time of the interview.
(17) The fundamental frequency of the children's dysfluent speech was higher than their fluent speech while there was no difference in the teenager's speech.
(18) Student participation in school-based suicide prevention programs, however, was associated with a detrimental effect on state teenage suicide rates.
(19) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(20) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.