Hobby - Game - Pastime
These are all words for activities that you do for pleasure in your spare time.
Interest an activity or a subject that you do or study for pleasure in your spare time: Her main interests are music and gardening.
Hobby an activity that you do for pleasure in your spare time: His hobbies include swimming and cooking.
Game a children’s activity when they play with toys, pretend to be sb else, etc.; an activity that you do to have fun: A game of cops and robbers. | He was playing games with the dog.
Pastime an activity that people do for pleasure in their spare time: Eating out is the national pastime in France.
INTEREST, HOBBY OR PASTIME?
A hobby is often more active than an interest: His main hobby is football (= he plays football). | His main interest is football (= he watches and reads about football, and may or may not play it). Pastime is used when talking about people in general; when you are talking about yourself or an individual person it is more usual to use interest or hobby: Eating out is the national interest/hobby in France. | Do you have any pastime?
PATTERNS
*a popular interest/hobby/pastime
*to have/share interests/hobbies
*a to take up/pursue a(n) interest/hobby
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