Noun
A calling away; a diversion.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land? Aldo Leopold
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. Robert Frost
My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight. Robert Frost
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. Eugene Field
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Jonas Salk
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation. Susan Vreeland