A hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one’s leisure time.
Hobbies include:collecting items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing other amusements or avocations.
Participation in hobbies encourages acquiring substantial skills and knowledge.
Hobbies tend to follow trends in society:stamp collecting , video games
The advancing production and technology provides workers with more leisure time to engage in hobbies.
The efforts of people investing in hobbies has increased with time.
Hobbies are three sub-categories: casual leisure, which is intrinsically rewarding, short-lived, pleasurable activity requiring little or no preparation; serious leisure, which is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer that is substantial, rewarding and results in a sense of accomplishment; and finally project-based leisure, which is a short-term, often one-off, project that is rewarding.
A hobby is also called a pastime, from the use of hobbies to pass the time.
Hobbies are usually, but not always, practiced primarily for interest and enjoyment, rather than financial reward.
The term hobby suggests activities, such as stamp collecting, embroidery, knitting, painting, woodwork, and photography, and typically the description did not include activities like listening to music, watching television, or reading.
These latter activities also bring pleasure, but lack the sense of achievement usually associated with a hobby.
These latter activities are usually not structured, organized pursuits, as most hobbies are.
The pleasure of a hobby is usually associated with making something of value or achieving something of value: Such leisure is socially valorized precisely because it produces feelings of satisfaction with something that looks very much like work but that is done of its own sake.
Hobbies are a contradiction: they take work and turn it into leisure, and take leisure and turn it into work.
Hobbyto most is accurately describe activities associated with making or collecting objects, especially when done alone.
Cultural trends related to hobbies change with time: video game industry has been popular as a hobby involving millions of children and adults, while stamp collecting declined.
Hobbyists engage in five broad types of activity: collecting, making and tinkering (like embroidery and car restoration), activity participation (like fishing and singing), sports and games, and liberal-arts hobbies (like languages, cuisine, literature).
Volunteers commit to organizations where they work as guides, counsellors, gardeners and so on. The separation of the amateur from the hobbyist is because the amateur has the ethos of the professional practitioner as a guide to practice. An amateur clarinetist is conscious of the role and procedures of a professional clarinetist.
A large proportion of hobbies are mainly solitary in nature.
Some hobbies are of communal nature.
People who engage in hobbies have an interest in and time to pursue them.
The growth in hobbies occurred during industrialization which gave workers set time for leisure.
Hobbies are often pursued by retired people because they have the time and seek the intellectual and physical stimulation a hobby provides.
Types of hobbies
Collecting
Collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying and storing.
Collecting appeals to many people due to their interest in a particular subject and a desire to categorize and make order out of complexity.
Some collectors are generalists, while others focus on a subtopic within their area of interest,.
Sometimes collectors have turned their hobby into a business, becoming commercial dealers that trade in the items being collected.
Making and tinkering includes working on self-motivated projects for fulfillment.
These projects may be progressive, irregular tasks performed over a long period of time.
Outdoor pursuits are the group of activities which occur outdoors: gardening, hill walking, hiking, backpacking, cycling, canoeing, climbing, caving, fishing, hunting, target shooting, wildlife viewing and engaging in watersports and snowsports.
Many hobbies involve performances by the hobbyist, such as singing, acting, juggling, magic, dancing, playing a musical instrument, martial arts, and other performing arts.
Some hobbies may result in an end product.
Writing is often taken up as a hobby.
Reading books, eBooks, magazines, comics, or newspapers, along with browsing the internet is a common hobby.
Knitting or Crocheting is a calming and productive hobby.
Studies of aging and society support the value of hobbies in healthy aging.