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List of hobbies

List of hobbies

About This Event

This is a partial list of hobbies. A hobby is an activity, interest, or pastime that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, done during one's own time. This list includes only recognized hobbies that have been the subject of published discussions or that have organized membership associations. Entries in this list should be links to Wikipedia articles about very specific hobbies or to articles about the subjects of hobbies where there is a section demonstrating that it is or was recognized as a hobby.

 

General hobbies

Indoors

  • 3D printing[1]
  • Acrobatics
  • Acting
  • Amateur radio
  • Animation
  • Aquascaping
  • Astrology
  • Astronomy
  • Baking
  • Baton twirling
  • Blogging
  • Building
  • Board/tabletop games
  • Book discussion clubs
  • Book restoration
  • Bowling
  • Brazilian jiu-jitsu
  • Breadmaking
  • Bullet journaling
  • Cabaret
  • Calligraphy
  • Candle making
  • Candy making
  • Car fixing & building
  • Card games
  • Cheesemaking
  • Cleaning
  • Clothesmaking
  • Coffee roasting
  • Collecting
  • Coloring
  • Computer programming
  • Confectionery
  • Cooking
  • Cosplaying
  • Couponing
  • Craft
  • Creative writing
  • Crocheting
  • Cross-stitch
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Cryptography
  • Cue sports
  • Dance
  • Digital arts
  • Distro Hopping
  • DJing
  • Do it yourself
  • Drama
  • Drawing
  • Drink mixing
  • Electronic games
  • Electronics
  • Embroidery
  • Experimenting
  • Fantasy sports
  • Fashion
  • Fashion design
  • Fishkeeping
  • Flower arranging
  • Fly tying
  • Foreign language learning
  • Furniture building
  • Gaming (tabletop games and role-playing games)
  • Genealogy
  • Gingerbread house making
  • Glassblowing
  • Graphic design
  • Gunsmithing
  • Gymnastics
  • Hacking
  • Herp keeping
  • Home improvement
  • Homebrewing
  • Houseplant care
  • Hula hooping
  • Hydroponics
  • Ice skating
  • Jewelry making
  • Jigsaw puzzles
  • Journaling
  • Juggling
  • Karaoke
  • Karate
  • Kendama
  • Knife making
  • Knitting
  • Knot tying
  • Kombucha brewing
  • Lace making
  • Lapidary
  • Leather crafting
  • Lego building
  • Lock picking
  • Listening to music
  • Listening to podcasts
  • Machining
  • Macrame
  • Magic
  • Makeup
  • Metalworking
  • Model building
  • Model engineering
  • Nail art
  • Needlepoint
  • Origami
  • Painting
  • Palmistry
  • Pet adoption & fostering
  • Philately
  • Photography
  • Practical jokes
  • Pressed flower craft
  • Playing musical instruments
  • Poi
  • Pottery
  • Powerlifting
  • Puzzles
  • Quilling
  • Quilting
  • Quizzes
  • Rail transport modeling
  • Rapping
  • Reading
  • Refinishing
  • Reiki
  • Robot combat
  • Rubik's Cube
  • Scrapbooking
  • Sculpting
  • Sewing
  • Shoemaking
  • Singing
  • Sketching
  • Soapmaking
  • Social media
  • Stand-up comedy[58]
  • Stamp collecting
  • Table tennis
  • Tarot
  • Taxidermy
  • Thrifting
  • Video editing
  • Video game developing
  • Video gaming
  • Watching movies
  • Watching television
  • Weaving
  • Weight training
  • Welding
  • Whittling
  • Wikipedia editing
  • Winemaking
  • Wood carving
  • Woodworking
  • Worldbuilding
  • Writing
  • Word searches
  • Yo-yoing
  • Yoga

Outdoors

  • Air sports
  • Airsoft
  • Archery
  • Astronomy
  • Backpacking
  • BASE jumping
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Beekeeping
  • Birdwatching
  • Blacksmithing
  • BMX
  • Board sports
  • Bodybuilding
  • Bonsai
  • Butterfly watching
  • Camping
  • Canoeing
  • Canyoning
  • Caving
  • Composting
  • Cycling
  • Dowsing
  • Driving
  • Fishing
  • Flag football
  • Flower growing
  • Flying
  • Flying disc
  • Foraging
  • Fossicking
  • Freestyle football
  • Gardening
  • Geocaching
  • Ghost hunting
  • Gold prospecting
  • Graffiti
  • Handball
  • Herbalism
  • Herping
  • High-power rocketry
  • Hiking
  • Hobby horsing
  • Hooping
  • Horseback riding
  • Hunting
  • Inline skating
  • Jogging
  • Kayaking
  • Kite flying
  • Kitesurfing
  • Lacrosse
  • LARPing
  • Letterboxing
  • Longboarding
  • Martial arts
  • Metal detecting
  • Meteorology
  • Motor sports
  • Mountain biking
  • Mountaineering
  • Mushroom hunting/mycology
  • Netball
  • Nordic skating
  • Orienteering
  • Paintball
  • Parkour
  • Photography
  • Podcast hosting
  • Polo
  • Rafting
  • Rappelling
  • Road biking
  • Rock climbing
  • Roller skating
  • Rugby
  • Running
  • Sailing
  • Sand art
  • Scouting
  • Scuba diving
  • Sculling or rowing
  • Shooting
  • Shopping
  • Shuffleboard
  • Skateboarding
  • Skiing
  • Skimboarding
  • Skydiving
  • Slacklining
  • Snowboarding
  • Snowmobiling
  • Snowshoeing
  • Soccer
  • Stone skipping
  • Sun bathing
  • Surfing
  • Survivalism
  • Swimming
  • Taekwondo
  • Tai chi
  • Topiary
  • Thru-hiking
  • Travel
  • Urban exploration
  • Vacation
  • Vegetable farming
  • Vehicle restoration
  • Walking
  • Water sports
  • Collection hobbies
  • Indoors
  • Action figure
  • Antiquing
  • Art collecting
  • Book collecting
  • Button collecting
  • Cartophily (card collecting)
  • Coin collecting
  • Comic book collecting
  • Deltiology (postcard collecting)
  • Die-cast toy
  • Dolls
  • Element collecting
  • Ephemera collecting
  • Fusilately (phonecard collecting)
  • Knife collecting
  • Lotology (lottery ticket collecting)
  • Movie and movie memorabilia collecting
  • Perfume
  • Phillumeny
  • Pin (lapel)
  • Rail transport modelling
  • Record collecting
  • Rock tumbling
  • Scutelliphily
  • Shoes
  • Sports memorabilia
  • Stamp collecting
  • Stuffed toy collecting
  • Tea bag collecting
  • Ticket collecting
  • Toys
  • Video game collecting
  • Vintage cars
  • Vintage clothing
  • Vinyl Records
  • Outdoors
  • Antiquities
  • Auto audiophilia
  • Flower collecting and pressing
  • Fossil hunting
  • Insect collecting
  • Magnet fishing
  • Metal detecting
  • Mineral collecting
  • Rock balancing
  • Sea glass collecting
  • Seashell collecting
  • Stone collecting
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