List of hobbies
From Wikinfo
This is a list of hobbies.
Animal-related
- Beekeeping
- Dog breeding
- Herpetoculture
- Animal fancy - Keeping pet or show animals
- Horses
- Animal rescue (injured or orphaned wild or domestic animals)
Arts and crafts
- Blacksmithing
- Crochet
- Dollhouses
- Doll making
- Drawing
- Embroidery
- Enamels
- Knitting
- Miniature figures
- Origami
- Painting
- Pottery
- Quilting
- Scrapbooking
- Sculpture
- Sewing
- Stained glass
- Stamping
- Warm glass
- Weaving
- Wood carving
- Woodworking
Chemistry
Collecting
- Antiques
- Artwork
- Autographs
- Books
- Cigarette cards
- Classic videogames
- Coins
- Collecting fossils
- Comic books
- Currency
- Dumpster diving
- Enamels
- Found objects
- Microchips
- Phillumenism (match-box labels)
- Postcards
- Records
- Collecting Rocks and Minerals
- Scale models
- Shopping lists
- Stamps
- Trading cards such as baseball cards
- Wine labels
- Shot glasses
Computer-related
- 3D computer graphics design
- Animation design
- Computer games
- Computer programming
- Open source and the free software movement
- Operating systems, e.g. GNU/Linux
- Retrocomputing
Cooking
DIY (Do It Yourself)
Electronics
- Designing and building electronic circuits
- Hardware hacking
- Amateur radio and CB radio
- Robots
- TV and FM DXing
Fan fiction
Film-making
Flirting
Games
- Board games
- Card games
- Dominoes
- Wargaming, sometimes with miniatures
- Role-playing games
Geofiction, including model nations
Historical reenactment, as in the Society for Creative Anachronism
Homebrewing
Interactive fiction
Internet-based hobbies
- Wikipedia
- Google Whacking
- Newsgroups
- Currency bill tracking
- Geocaching a modern day form of treasure hunting
- GPS drawing
- BookCrossing
Literature
- Reading
- Writing
- Learning foreign languages
- Constructed languages (conlanging)
Machining
Model (scale model) building
- Live steam models
- Matchstick models
- Military models
- Model aircraft -- civil and military
- Model cars, including radio-controlled cars
- Model commercial vehicles
- Model houses
- Model figures -- historical and military
- Model military vehicles -- including armored vehicles
- Model nations
- Model railways/railroads
- Model rockets
- Model ships -- civil and military
- Movie and Pop Culture-based models
Motor vehicles
Music
- Singing and playing musical instruments
- Musical composition and MIDI compostion
Observation
- Amateur astronomy
- Geyser gazing
- Metrophilia
- Train, plane, and bus spotting
Outdoor nature activities
- Backpacking
- Birdfeeding, birding, and birdwatching
- Butterfly watching
- Camping
- Caving
- Canoeing and kayaking
- SCUBA diving
- Gardening, including forest gardening, organic gardening, wildlife gardening, and permaculture
- Hiking
- Kite flying
- Mountain climbing
- Rafting
- Rock climbing
- Stone skipping
- Rockhounding (rock and mineral hunting/collecting)
- Walking
Photography
- Kite photography
- Darkroom work, i.e developing and enlarging films and photos in black&white or color
Physics demos or experiments
Puzzles
Research-related
Restoration of highly entropic artifacts
Sports or other physical activities
- Baseball, softball, and rounders
- Bowling
- Cycling
- Dance
- Fantasy sports
- Freshwater and saltwater fishing, including fly fishing
- Gliding
- Hunting
- Martial Arts
- Sailing
- Shooting rifles, pistols, and shotguns
- Table tennis where the level of play isn't really hindered by advanced age
- Ultimate frisbee
Toys of some sophistication
- LEGO, including Brikwars, and Lego Mindstorms
- Radio control toys
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_hobbies" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
