hobby has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] an auxiliary activity

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Folklore is his hobby , and he , all_too rightly , wishes it to remain as such .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

What you were looking_for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis_rackets and fly screens ) eludes me , but to judge from phonograph_records scattered about a fumed_oak Victrola , you danced two tangos and a paso_doble , which must have been fairly enervating in that milieu .

Related terms

pastime speleology

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8191
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[ noun ] a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horsehead on one end of a stick; the child straddles it an pretends to ride

Related terms

plaything rocker

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[ noun ] (zoology) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds

Synonyms

Falco_subbuteo

Related terms

falcon Falco

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