What are some opposite words for hobby?

Antonyms for hobby
ˈhɒb ihob·by

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. hobby1

    Synonyms:
    pastime, avocation

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. hobby

    Antonyms:
    bun, course, speed, leap

    Synonyms:
    limp, falter

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activitynoun

    an auxiliary activity

    Synonyms:
    sideline, out of bounds, pursual, hobbyhorse, following, pursuance, chase, by-line, avocation, pastime, credit line, rocking horse, interest, quest, spare-time activity, pursuit

  2. hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horsenoun

    a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride

    Synonyms:
    rocking horse, sideline, avocation, spare-time activity, hobbyhorse, by-line, pursuit

  3. hobby, Falco subbuteonoun

    small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds

    Synonyms:
    rocking horse, sideline, avocation, spare-time activity, hobbyhorse, by-line, pursuit

How to use hobby in a sentence?

  1. Alasdair Howell:

    It is a hobby, but I like it very much and I think it's part of me.

  2. Granni Nazzano:

    My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.

  3. Kai Tarkianen:

    The guys from the village just come and close a stretch of road in the middle of the night and go and see who's the fastest, then somebody thinks,' hmm, this is quite fun'... and then they go into hobby rallying and work their way up from there.

  4. George Bryan:

    The goal is really to use this to help our pro golf careers out, but at the same time we view this as a hobby, we both enjoy it, and when we do have an off week, it's good to get out minds off tournament golf and there's no better outlet to be creative than trying some trick shots out and seeing how far we can take it.

  5. Linus Torvalds:

    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#428course
#969speed
#7152hobby
#10365leap
#21516bun

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