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How to pronounce hobby in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hobbyhorse, rocking horse
Type of toy, plaything
Type Words
Synonyms avocation, by-line, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity
Type of interest, pastime, pursuit
Has types spelaeology, speleology
Derivation hobbyist
Type Words
Synonyms falco subbuteo
Type of falcon

Examples of hobby

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The IRS will be looking carefully, too, at hobby expense versus a real business.
From the newsday.com
Every year over 30 million reef fish and critters are sacrificed for this hobby.
From the ocregister.com
Having a hobby can divert you from thinking Christmas is the be all and end all.
From the dailymail.co.uk
An Ethiopian hobby gardener is sharing his heritage berbere peppers with Hempel.
From the sfgate.com
I'm shocked to see photography as a good hobby, and drawing not in this article.
From the him.uk.msn.com
To him, running for President seems to be somewhere between a hobby and a quirk.
From the time.com
Some, like Ab Copeland of Davis, have turned finding those pennies into a hobby.
From the sacbee.com
It's given those without a hobby, an obsession and those with nothing, a future.
From the online.wsj.com
He hopes his 2-year-old son will adopt the hobby he took up from his own father.
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More examples
  • Avocation: an auxiliary activity
  • A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride
  • Small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds
  • (hobbyism) a devotion to hobbies
  • A hobby is an activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, typically done during one's leisure time.
  • A hobby is a fairly small, very swift falcon with long, narrow wings. There are four birds called hobby, and some others which, although termed falcon, are very similar. All specialise in being superb aerialists. ...
  • An English surname
  • An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time; An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby
  • (Hobbies) Dancing and chatting