pastime

CEFRB2

/ˈpæs.taɪm/

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Playing cards is a popular pastime.
Chatting is a pleasant pastime.
[…]lax court morals and the absurd chivalry business were in full feather, and the joust and the tournament were the frequent pastime of titled fine gentlemen who could fight better than they could spell...

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Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.
1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN
And your pastimes, consisted of the strange And twisted and deranged And I hate that little game you had called "Crying Lightning"
2009, Alex Turner, “Crying Lightning”, in Humbug (album), performed by Arctic Monkeys
Nor would there be an opportunity for the media's favorite pastime of exposing conflict among his advisors.
2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 398

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From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.