: something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably : diversion
Her favorite pastime is gardening.
Baseball has been a national pastime for many years.
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Baseball has been a national pastime for years.
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Many of the other posts showed Connor partaking in one of his favorite pastimes — fishing.
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Nicholas Rice, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Editor’s picks Making of an Empire The story of how a president of the United States wound up cage-side in Madison Square Garden that night is also the story of MMA, a sport that over the past 30 years has gone from being a late-night cable TV sideshow to a new American pastime.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
Treating the tragedies of others like a spectator sport is almost always repugnant, but the calculating Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) and Ted Bundy fan girl-type Clémentine (Laurie Babin) approach the perverse pastime from opposite ends of the attention-seeking spectrum.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
In the Philippines, karaoke is a national pastime — and we're all invited to sing along.
—Acacia Gabriel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
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Nicholas Rice, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Editor’s picks Making of an Empire The story of how a president of the United States wound up cage-side in Madison Square Garden that night is also the story of MMA, a sport that over the past 30 years has gone from being a late-night cable TV sideshow to a new American pastime.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
Treating the tragedies of others like a spectator sport is almost always repugnant, but the calculating Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) and Ted Bundy fan girl-type Clémentine (Laurie Babin) approach the perverse pastime from opposite ends of the attention-seeking spectrum.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
In the Philippines, karaoke is a national pastime — and we're all invited to sing along.
—Acacia Gabriel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Pastime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pastime. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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pastime
noun
pas·time
ˈpas-ˌtīm 
: something that helps to make time pass agreeably
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