pastime

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1. pastime - Noun

2. pastime - Verb

Meaning

That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.

To sport; to amuse one's self.

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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Arthur Miller

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. Erma Bombeck

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness who read for pastime but not to kill time who love books, but do not live by books. Robertson Davies

Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth

em>The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. Peter Medawar

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. Wisława Szymborska

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