List of hobbies - Simple English Wikipedia

# List of hobbies

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Hobbies include:

- Animal
  - Beekeeping
  - Dog breeding
  - Herpetoculture
  - Keeping pet animals

- Arts and Crafts
  - Crochet
  - Dollhouses and Miniatures
  - Doll making
  - Drawing
  - Embroidery
  - Knitting
  - Painting
    - Miniature figure painting
    - Tole painting
  - Pottery
  - Quilting
  - Scrapbooking
  - Sculpture
  - Sewing
  - Stained glass
  - Stamping
  - Warm glass
  - Wood carving
  - Woodworking

- Collecting
  - Antiques
  - Artwork
  - Autographs
  - Books
  - Classic videogames
  - Coins
  - Comic books
  - Currency
  - Dumpster diving
  - Found objects
  - Models
  - Postcards
  - Records
  - Stamps
  - Trading cards such as baseball cards

- Computer
  - Computer programming
    - Linux
    - Open source and the free software movement
    - Retrocomputing
  - Computer games
  - 3d design
  - Animation design

- Cooking

- Electronics
  - Hardware hacking
  - Amateur radio and CB radio
  - Robots

- DIY
  - Home Repairs

- Film-making

- Games
  - Board games
    - Chess
    - Go
    - Pente
    - Tournament Scrabble
  - Card games
    - Bridge
    - Poker
    - Backgammon
    - Gin Rummy
  - Dominoes
  - Wargaming, sometimes with miniatures
  - Role-playing games

- Geofiction, including model nations

- Historical reenactment, as in the Society for Creative Anachronism

- Homebrewing

- Fan fiction
- Interactive Fiction

- Literature
  - Reading
  - Writing
  - Learning foreign languages
  - Constructed languages (conlanging)

- Machining

- Model-building
  - Model airplanes, rockets, and ships
  - Model cars, including radio-controlled
  - Model houses
  - Model nations
  - Model railways/railroads

- Motor vehicles
  - Antique cars
  - Kit-cars
  - Motorcycles
  - Trucks

- Music
  - Singing and playing musical instruments
  - Musical composition and MIDI compostion

- Observation
  - Amateur astronomy
  - Metrophilia
  - Train, plane, and bus spotting

- Outdoor nature activities
  - Birdfeeding, birding, and birdwatching
  - Butterfly watching
  - Caving
  - Canoeing and kayaking
  - Gardening, including forest gardening, organic gardening, and permaculture
  - Hiking
  - Kite flying
  - Mountain climbing
  - Rafting
  - Stone skipping
  - Walking

- Photography
  - Kite photography

- Physics demos or experiments

- Puzzles
  - Jigsaw puzzle
  - Crossword puzzles
  - Word seek puzzles
- Recreational drug use
- Research-related
  - Genealogy
  - Hagiography

- Restoration of highly entropic artifacts
  - Antique machinery
  - SailboatZ
  - Houses

- Sports
  - Baseball, softball, and rounders
  - Bowling
  - Cycling
  - Freshwater and saltwater fishing, including fly fishing
  - Gliding
  - Hunting
  - Sailing
  - Shooting rifles, pistols, and shotguns
  - Fantasy sports

- Toy
  - Lego
  - Radio control toys

- Internet-based hobbies
  - Wikipedia
  - Google Whacking
  - Newsgroups
  - Currency bill tracking
  - Geocaching
  - GPS drawing
  - BookCrossing

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