List of hobbies

 

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

This is a list of hobbies.

Amateur science related

• Amateur astronomy
• Amateur microscopy
• Chemical experiments (or kitchen chemistry)
• Fireworks
• Lasers
• Mass-Observation
• Physics demos or experiments
• Robots

(See also: The Amateur Scientist)

Animal-related

• Fancy (animal breeding) (keeping pet or show animals)
• Animal rescue (injured or orphaned wild or domestic animals)
• Bird watching
• Beekeeping
• Dog breeding
• Falconry
• Fishkeeping
• Herpetoculture
• Horses
• Hunting

Arts and crafts

• Altar art
• Beading
• Blacksmithing
• Calligraphy
• Collaging
• Cosplay
• Crochet
• Cross-stitch
• Dollhouses
• Doll making
• Drawing
• Embroidery
• Enamels
• Figure painting
• Glassblowing
• Jewellery making
• Knitting
• Leather crafting
• Origami
• Painting
  • Figure painting (hobby)
  • Tole painting
  • Watercolor
  • Splatter painting
• Papercraft
• Pottery
• Quilting
• Scrapbooking
• Sculpture
• Sewing
• Soapmaking
• Stained glass
• Stamping
• Warm glass
• Weaving
• Wood carving
• Woodworking
• Watches

Collecting

• Antiques
• Artwork
• Autographs
• Aviation archaeology
• Banknotes
• Baseball cards

• Beetles
• Books
• Bottles
• Business cards
• Butterflies
• Calendars
• Cameras
• Candlesticks

• Cards
• Conifer cones
• Bottle caps
• Christmas accessories
• Classic videogames
• Clocks
• Coasters
• Coins
• Comic books
• Crystals
• Currency
• Dice
• Die-cast toys
• Dumpster diving

• Enamels
• Fashion Design
• Feathers
• Fossils
• Found objects
• Fountain pens
• Guns
• Hats
• Jewelry

• Keychains
• Knives (pocket knives, hunting knives, kitchen knives)
• Lunchboxes
• Manga
• Matchcovers and matchboxes ("phillumenism")
• Microchips
• Militaria
• Miniature figures
• Moths

• Newspapers
• Patches
• Photographs
• Postcards
• Posters
• Quotes
• Recordings (Records, CDs, Cassettes)
• Rocks and Minerals
• Scale models
• Salt and pepper shakers
• Shopping lists
• Souvenirs
• Spoons
• Stamps
• Stickers
• Swords

• Teddy bears
• Thimbles
• Trading cards (such as baseball cards)
• Treasure hunting (possibly using metal detectors)
• Watches and Clocks
• Yardsticks

Computer-related

• 3D computer graphics design
• Animation design
• Computer games
• Computer programming
• Distributed computing projects
  • Open source and the free software movement
  • Competitive programming - e.g. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest or TopCoder
• Operating systems, e.g. GNU/Linux
• Image editing (with Adobe Photoshop for example)
• Retrocomputing
• Modding / case modding

Cooking

• Baking
• Barbecue (Grilling)
• Beer making
• OpenCola

DIY (Do It Yourself)

• Home Repairs
• Interior Design
• Logging Inventing ideas
• Lock picking
• Low-tech
• Spud gun

Electronics

• Amateur radio
• CB radio
• Circuit bending
• DIY audio
• Designing and building electronic circuits
• Hardware hacking
• TV and FM DXing
• Home theater

Film-making

• Animation
• Short movies

Games

• Board games
  • Backgammon
  • Checkers
  • Chess
  • Carrom
  • Chinese Checkers
  • German board games
  • Go
  • Monopoly
  • Pente
  • Risk
  • Rummikub
  • Tournament Scrabble
  • Stratego
• Card games
  • Bridge
  • Cribbage
  • Gin rummy
  • Poker
  • Trading Card Games/Collectible Card Games
  • euchre
• Dominoes
• Fantasy sports
• Role-playing games
• Video games
• Wargaming, sometimes with miniatures

Historical reenactment

• Ancient reenactment (See also: List of ancient reenactment groups)
• Dark Ages reenactment
• Early Medieval reenactment
• High Medieval reenactment
• Renaissance reenactment
• Jousting
• English Civil War reenactment
• Modern reenactment
• North America Fur Trade reenactments (known as "Rendezvous")
• French and Indian War reenactment
• American Revolutionary War reenactment
• Napoleonic war reenactment
• Franco-Prussian War reenactment
• American Civil War reenactment
• Wild West reenactment
• Cowboy action shooting
• World War II

Interactive fiction

• Collaborative fiction
• Gamebook
• Interactive storytelling
• Role-playing game
• Sopranos episode reenactment (Has become increasingly popular in upstate New York. Substantive link required.)

Internet-based hobbies

• Beboing
• Blogging
• BookCrossing
• Currency bill tracking
• Facebooking
• Geocaching
• Google whacking
• GPS drawing
• MSN
• MySpace
• Newsgroups
• StumbleUpon
• Trolling
• Wikipedia
• World Wide Web
• Yahoo Answers
• Friendster

Literature

• Constructed languages (conlanging)
• Geofiction, including model nations
• Learning foreign languages
• Reading and bibliophilia
• Writing

Model (scale model) building

• Live steam models
• Matchstick models
• Military models
• Model aircraft
• Model cars, including radio-controlled cars
• Model commercial vehicles
• Model engineering (Machining)
• Model houses
• Model figures
• Model military vehicles
• Model nations
• Model railways/railroads
  • Backyard railroads
• Model rockets
• Model ships
• Model yachting

Music

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

Observation

• Amateur astronomy
• Bird watching
• Geyser gazing
• Horoscopes
• People/crowd watching
• Transportation spotting (see below)

Outdoor/nature activities

• Airsoft
• Backpacking
• Birdfeeding, birding, and birdwatching
• Bouldering
• Buildering or urban climbing
• Butterfly watching
• Camping
• Caving
• Canoeing and kayaking
• Fishing
• Gardening (forest gardening, organic gardening, wildlife gardening, bonsai, and permaculture)
• Geocaching
• Ghost Hunting
• Hacky Sack/footbag
• Hiking
• Historical Trekking
• Horse riding
• Hunting
• Kite flying
• Laser skirmish
• Letterboxing
• Mountain climbing
• Nudism
• Paintball
• Rafting
• Rock climbing
• Rockhounding (rock and mineral hunting/collecting)
• Ice Skating
• Plinking
• Sailing
• Sight seeing
• Skiing
• Snowboarding
• Survival Camping
• Stone skipping
• SCUBA diving
• Traveling
• Treasure hunting (possibly with metal detectors)
• Urban Exploration
• Walking

Performing arts

• Amateur theater
• Dancing
• Juggling
• Magic tricks
• Singing

Photography

• Astrophotography
• Darkroom work (developing and printing photographic film)
• Kite aerial photography

Sports or other physical activities

• Aerobics
• Archery
• Badminton
• Baseball, softball, and rounders
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Boxing
• Cheerleading
• Cricket
• Cycling
• Dance
• Flying
• Freshwater and saltwater fishing, including fly fishing
• Fencing/Historical Fencing
• Football
• Football (soccer)
• Free Running
• Gliding
• Golf
• Hanggliding
• Hunting
• Ice skating
• Kitesurfing
• Lacrosse
• Martial arts
• Paintball
• Parkour
• Racquetball
• Ringette
• Rowing
• Running, Jogging
• Sailing
• Shooting rifles, pistols, and shotguns
• Surfing
• Table tennis
• Tae Kwon Do
• Tennis
• Ultimate
• Volleyball
• Weight lifting
• Skating
• Swimming
• Skiing
• Snowboarding
• Yachting
• Yoga
• Soccer

Toys of some sophistication

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

Transportation

• Automobiles:
  • Antique cars
  • Auto detailing
  • Autocross
  • Kit cars
  • Motorcycles
  • Mopeds
  • Scooters
  • Motorsports (auto/motorcycle racing)
  • 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

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