List of hobbies

Encyclopedia : L : LI : LIS : List of hobbies

---

This is an [Incomplete listsincomplete list], which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

This is a list of hobbies.

• Fancy (animal breeding) - Keeping pet or show animals
• Animal rescue (injured or orphaned wild or domestic animals)
• Bird watching
• Beekeeping
• Dog breeding
• Herpetoculture
• Horses

• Self-maintaining Home Aquarium

• Blacksmithing
• Calligraphy
• Crochet
• Dollhouses
• Doll making
• Drawing
• Embroidery
• Enamels
• Knifemaking
• Knitting
• Miniature figures
• Origami
• Painting
• * Figure painting (hobby)
• * Tole painting
• * Watercolor
• Pottery
• Quilting
• Scrapbooking
• Sculpture
• Sewing
• Stained glass
• Stamping
• Warm glass
• Weaving
• Wood carving
• Woodworking

• Chemical experiments
• Fireworks

• Antiques
• Artwork
• Ashtrays
• Autographs
• Aviation archaeology
• Beer Cans
• Beetles
• Books
• Bottles
• Butterflies
• Calendars
• Candlesticks
• Conifer cones
• Bottle caps
• Christmas accessories
• Cigarette cards
• Classic videogames
• Clocks
• Coasters
• Coins
• Comic books
• Currency
• Dice
• Dumpster diving
• Enamels
• Fossil collecting
• Found objects
• Hats
• Keychains
• knives
• Lighters
• Lunchboxes
• Manga
• Microchips
• Miniature figures
• Moths
• Newspapers
• Patches
• Phillumenism, i.e. collecting matchbooks and matchboxes
• Photographs
• Poker Chips
• Postcards
• Posters
• Quotes
• Records
• Collecting Rocks and Minerals
• Scale models
• Scissors
• Shopping lists
• Shot glasses
• Souvenirs
• Spoons
• Stamps
• Swords
• Teddy bears
• Thimbles
• Tobacco and marijuana smoking devices (smoking pipes, bongs, grinders...)
• Trading cards such as baseball cards
• Wine labels
• Yardsticks

• 3D computer graphics design
• Animation design
• Computer games
• Computer programming
• * Open source and the free software movement
• * Competitive programming - e.g. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest or TopCoder
• Operating systems, e.g. GNU/Linux
• Photoshopping
• Retrocomputing
• Modding / Case modding

Any food/drink you feel like making

• Home Repairs

• Amateur radio
• CB radio
• DIY audio
• Designing and building electronic circuits
• Hardware hacking
• Robots
• TV and FM DXing

• Slash fiction

• Animation

• Board games
• * Backgammon
• * Checkers
• * Chess
• * Chinese Checkers
• * Go
• * Monopoly
• * Pente
• * Rummikub
• * Tournament Scrabble
• * Stratego
• Card games
• * Bridge
• * Poker
• * Gin rummy
• Backgammon
• Dominoes
• Role-playing games
• Wargaming, sometimes with miniatures
• German board games

• 43things.com
• Blogging
• BookCrossing
• Currency bill tracking
• Writing reviews for Gamespot
• Geocaching a modern day form of treasure hunting
• Google Whacking
• GPS drawing
• Newsgroups
• StumbleUpon
• Wikipedia
• World Wide Web

• Logging ideas

• Constructed languages (conlanging)
• Learning foreign languages
• Reading and bibliophilia
• Writing

• Model engineering

• Live steam models
• Matchstick models
• Military models
• Model aircraft -- civil and military
• Model cars, including radio-controlled cars
• Model commercial vehicles
• Model engineering
• Model houses
• Model figures -- historical and military
• Model military vehicles -- including armored vehicles
• Model nations
• Model railways/railroads
• * Backyard railroads
• Model rockets
• Model ships -- civil and military

• Musical composition and MIDI composition
• Singing and playing musical instruments

• Amateur astronomy
• Geyser gazing

Outdoor nature activities

• Backpacking
• Birdfeeding, birding, and birdwatching
• Bouldering
• Butterfly watching
• Camping
• Caving
• Canoeing and kayaking
• Gardening, including forest gardening, organic gardening, wildlife gardening, bonsai, and permaculture
• Hiking
• Geocaching
• Kite flying
• Mountain climbing
• Rafting
• Rock climbing
• Rockhounding (rock and mineral hunting/collecting)
• Skiing
• Stone skipping
• SCUBA diving
• Walking

• Amateur theater
• Dancing
• Magic tricks
• Singing

• Darkroom work, i.e developing films and enlarging photos in black-and-white or color
• Kite aerial photography

• Archery
• Baseball, softball, and rounders
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Cycling
• Dance
• Fantasy sports
• Freshwater and saltwater fishing, including fly fishing
• Fencing
• Football
• Football (soccer)
• Gliding
• Golf
• Hunting
• Martial Arts
• Racquetball
• Running
• Sailing
• Shooting rifles, pistols, and shotguns
• Surfing
• Table tennis where the level of play isn't really hindered by advanced age
• Tennis
• Ultimate
• Volleyball
• Skating

• LEGO, including Brikwars, and Lego Mindstorms
• Radio control toys

• Automobiles:
• * Antique cars
• * Autocross
• * Car washing
• * Kit cars
• * Motorcycles
• * Off-roading
• * Rallying
• * Trucks
• Enthusiasm
• * Railfan
• * Roadgeek
• * Metrophile
• Gongoozler (people who watch canals in the United Kingdom)
• Transport spotting
• * Aircraft spotting
• * Bus spotting
• * Train spotting

 

---

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Search Titles

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

?