List of hobbies

This is a list of hobbies.

• Animal
  • Beekeeping
  • Dog breeding
  • Herpetoculture
  • Keeping pet animals
  • Horses
  • Animal rescue (injured or orphaned wild or domestic animals)

• Arts and Crafts
  • Blacksmithing
  • Crochet
  • Dollhouses
  • Doll making
  • Drawing
  • Embroidery
  • Knitting
  • Miniature figures
  • Painting
    • Figure painting (hobby)
    • 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
  • Phillumenism (match-box labels)
  • Postcards
  • Records
  • Rocks/minerals/fossils
  • 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 (Do It Yourself)
  • 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 (scale model) building
  • Matchstick models
  • Military models
  • Model aircraft -- civil and military
  • Model cars, including radio-controlled cars
  • Model commercial vehicles
  • Model houses
  • Model figures -- historical and military
  • Model military vehicles -- including armored vehicles
  • Model nations
  • Model railways/railroads
  • Model rockets
  • Model ships -- civil and military
  • Movie and Pop Culture-based models

• 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, wildlife gardening, and permaculture
  • Hiking
  • Kite flying
  • Mountain climbing
  • Rafting
  • Stone skipping
  • Rockhounding (rock and mineral hunting/collecting)
  • 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
  • Houses
  • SailboatZ

• Sports or other physical activities
  • Baseball, softball, and rounders
  • Bowling
  • Cycling
  • Dance
  • Fantasy sports
  • Freshwater and saltwater fishing, including fly fishing
  • Gliding
  • Hunting
  • Sailing
  • Shooting rifles, pistols, and shotguns
  • Ultimate frisbee

• Toy
  • Lego, including brikwars
  • Radio control toys

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