What is "pastime"

Usage examples of "pastime".

Golf is an example of a milder outdoor pastime that is particularly suited to middle-aged and elderly persons, although young men and women are benefited by it, too.

Meanwhile, I expect to shake the dust of the German Great Headquarters from my reportorial feet early tomorrow morning, for pedestrianism is not a safe pastime in the war zone.

Surprises beating the ball about the field in a brisk, seamanlike fashion, but by now it was too late: as far as Stephen was concerned cricket was marked down for ever as an intolerably insipid pastime, decorative enough for half an hour, perhaps, but not to be compared with hurling for speed, skill, grace of movement, and dramatic fire.

The deities of the woods and the deities of the rivers come out from their secret haunts, and keep their pastimes unapprehensive of human intrusion.

And so he sat down with a bowl of cold unseasoned rice and a glass of mineral water, to enjoy the national pastime.

He is after me to stand at the backhouse door with a broom in my hand and my hair falling about my ears, but as I am much too grand for such pastimes these days, he paints himself, like Rembrandt.

Hunter does not seem to have regarded his own experiments other than as an intellectual pastime.

The Baron had learned enough of the pastimes of his adopted country to be aware that this gigantic weapon was something like four times as heavy as any hammer hitherto thrown by the hardiest Caledonian.

Sasha pulled off the freeway and grabbed a cup of coffee from McDonalds, along with an Egg McMuffin, some hashbrowns, pancakes and a large orange juice, all of which she consumed in her car while she participated in one of her favorite pastimes - people watching.

To Iwa this pastime of gambling seems a very ill one, particularly in a man of official rank.

A dreambox session might have done more, but the Keiki had never permitted such data to be taken, and besides, their human fellows hardly ever indulged in that pastime.

Teasing a cold Laris to warmth could prove to be a vastly amusing pastime.

I was easier for the Pathans to see than any other of our party, and well for me that singlestick and gloves have always been my favorite pastime!

Frequently spirits whose earth lives were spent in pursuit of pleasure and the pastimes of wealthy society have attained realization of a higher life through our psychic circle.

I had seen her again at Venice in 1753, and then our pastime had been of a more serious nature.