List of hobbies
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This is a list of hobbies.
[edit] Amateur science related
- Amateur astronomy
- Amateur microscopy
- Amateur telescope making
- Birdwatching
- Lasers
- Mass-Observation
- Robots
(See also: The Amateur Scientist)
[edit] 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
[edit] Arts and crafts
- Blacksmithing
- Calligraphy
- Cosplay
- Crochet
- Cross-stitch
- Dollhouses
- Doll making
- Drawing
- Embroidery
- Enamels
- Figure painting
- Knitting
- Leathercrafting
- Origami
- Painting
- Papercraft
- Pottery
- Quilting
- Scrapbooking
- Sculpture
- Sewing
- Soapmaking
- Stained glass
- Stamping
- Warm glass
- Weaving
- Wood carving
- Woodworking
- Watches
[edit] Chemistry
[edit] Collecting
- Conifer cones
- Counties
- Bottle caps
- Christmas accessori
- Classic videogames
- Clocks
- Coasters
- Coins
- Comic books
- Currency
- Dice
- Die-cast toys
- Dumpster diving
- Enamels
- Feathers
- Fossil collecting
- Found objects
- Fountain pens
- Guns
- Hats
- Keychains
- Knives such as pocket knife collecting and kitchen knives
- Lunchboxes
- Manga
- Matchcovers and matchboxes ("phillumenism")
- Microchips
- Militaria
- Miniature figures
- Moths
- Music, CDs, LPs, Cassettes, etc.
- Newspapers
- Patches
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Posters
- Quotes
- Records
- Collecting 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, with Metal Detectors
- Watches and Clocks
- Yardsticks
[edit] 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 (like with Adobe Photoshop)
- Retrocomputing
- Modding / case modding
[edit] Cooking
[edit] DIY (Do It Yourself)
[edit] Electronics
- Amateur radio
- CB radio
- DIY audio
- Designing and building electronic circuits
- Hardware hacking
- TV and FM DXing
- Home theater
[edit] Film-making
[edit] Games
- Board games
- Card games
- Bridge
- Cribbage
- Gin rummy
- Poker
- Trading Card Games/Collectible Card Games
- Dominoes
- Role-playing games
- Wargaming, sometimes with miniatures
- German board games
[edit] Geofiction, including model nations
[edit] 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
[edit] Homebrewing
[edit] Interactive fiction
[edit] Internet-based hobbies
- Blogging
- BookCrossing
- Currency bill tracking
- Geocaching, a modern day form of treasure hunting
- Google whacking
- GPS drawing
- Newsgroups
- StumbleUpon
- Wikipedia
- World Wide Web
[edit] Inventing
- Logging ideas
[edit] Literature
- Constructed languages (conlanging)
- Learning foreign languages
- Reading and bibliophilia
- Writing
[edit] Machining
[edit] 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 engineering
- 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
- Model yachting -- operating models (may not be exact replicas)
[edit] Music
- Musical composition and MIDI composition
- Singing and playing musical instruments
- Deejaying
[edit] Observation
[edit] Outdoor nature activities
- Airsoft
- Backpacking
- Birdfeeding, birding, and birdwatching
- Bouldering
- Buildering or urban climbing
- Butterfly watching
- Camping
- Caving
- Canoeing and kayaking
- Gardening, including forest gardening, organic gardening, wildlife gardening, bonsai, and permaculture
- Ghost Hunting
- Hacky Sac
- Hiking
- Historical Trekking
- Horse riding
- Hunting
- Geocaching
- Kite flying
- Laser skirmish
- Mountain climbing
- Paintball
- Rafting
- Rock climbing
- Rockhounding (rock and mineral hunting/collecting)
- Ice Skating
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Survival Camping
- Stone skipping
- SCUBA diving
- Treasure Hunting, including Metal Detectors
- Urban Exploration
- Walking
[edit] Performing arts
[edit] Photography
- Astrophotography
- Darkroom work, i.e developing films and enlarging photos in black-and-white or color
- Kite aerial photography
[edit] Physics demos or experiments
[edit] Sports or other physical activities
- Archery
- Badminton
- Baseball, softball, and rounders
- Basketball
- Bowling
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Dance
- Fantasy sports
- Flying
- Freshwater and saltwater fishing, including fly fishing
- Fencing, Historical Fencing, Classical Fencing, Olympic Fencing See also United States Fencing Association and Association for Renaissance Martial Arts
- Football
- Football (soccer)
- Free Running or Parkour
- Gliding
- Golf
- Hunting
- Ice skating
- Kitesurfing
- Martial Arts
- Paintball
- Racquetball
- Rowing
- Running, Jogging
- Sailing
- Shooting rifles, pistols, and shotguns
- Surfing
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Ultimate
- Volleyball
- Weight lifting
- Skating
- Swimming
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Yachting
[edit] Toys of some sophistication
- LEGO, including Brikwars, and Lego Mindstorms
- Radio control toys
- Erector Sets
[edit] Transportation
- Automobiles:
- Enthusiasm
- Gongoozler (people who watch canals in the United Kingdom)
- Transport spotting
