Pastime

Definition: Pastime

Pastime

Noun

1. A subject or pursuit that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly): "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited interests".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pastime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Pastime

Amusement

Noun: amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game, fun and games; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime, passetemps, sport; labor of love; pleasure.

Crosswords: Pastime

A dangerous pastime. (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

No, kneeling on glass is my favorite pastime. It keeps me from slouching. (A New Leaf; writing credit: Elaine May; Jack Ritchie)

The Great American Pastime (1956)

Dangerous Pastime (1922)

His Favorite Pastime (1914)

Getting to Home Base: The All American Pastime (1996)

Pastime (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Sport and a Pastime (reference)

• Coming Apart at the Seams: How Baseball Owners, Players, and Television Executives Have Led Our National Pastime to the Brink of Disaster (reference)

• Managing Little League Baseball : Recollections of America's Favorite Pastime (reference)

• Pastime (reference)

• The Crossword Obsession: The History and Lore of the World's Most Popular Pastime (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Baseball - Inning 6, The National Pastime (1940-1950) (reference)

• Pastime (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pastime with Good Company (reference)

• America's Favorite Pastime (reference)

• Pastime [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• The Great American Pastime (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Baseball at Dutch Harbor - the national pastime goes to the Aleutians.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Squid fishing - not just a pastime but a passion in Rhode Island. Round-the- clock fishing.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sailing is a popular pastime on the Chesapeake Bay.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Black and white wash painting of Greater Scaups, by Joseph D. Knap. Painting was his hobby and duck hunting a favorite pastime. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home.

America's pastime / Story: Brian Azzarello ; art: Eduardo Risso ; letters: Clem Robins ; color: Pamela Rambo.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake.Credit: Library of Congress.

Blowing bubble gum is a Saturday afternoon and Sunday pastime while swimming in Lake Providence, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pastime for little fingers. The girls' play-grounds.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pastime for little fingers. The boys' play-ground.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Soon finding, however, that either she or the image was unreal, she turned elsewhere for better pastime.

Housework was a pleasant pastime.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Israel

Israeli consumers enjoy shopping which is a popular pastime. (references)

India

Bargaining for the best price is a favorite pastime of the buyer and seller in India. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

kalim kohe (diversion), argëtim (amusement, cabaret, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, fun, jamboree, merriment, merrymaking, ploy, razzle-dazzle, recreation, relaxation, revel, rollick, sport, sporting, spree, tittup). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كل ما يسليك, ‏لهو (amusement, distraction, diversion, festivity, fun, lark, sport), ‏تسلية (amusement, dissipation, distraction, diversion, entertainment, play, rec, recreation, relaxation, resource, sport). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развлечение (amusement, avocation, distraction, divertissement, enjoyment, fun, pleasure, recreation, relaxation, resource, sport), забавление (amusement, enjoyment, entertainment, jolly, play, recreation, sport), игра (acting, game, hand, play, recreation, scamper, slack, sport). (various references)

Chinese 

消遣 (amusement, diversion). (various references)

Czech

zábava (amusement, delectation, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fun, kick, occupation, ploy, pursuit, recreation, sport, treat), kratochvíle (amusement, diversion, kill time, resource), hra (acting, cherrystone, chuck-farthing, deck, game, hand, jack-straws, performance, piece, play). (various references)

Farsi 

مشغولیات (Hobby), کاروقت گذران , ورزش (Exercise, Ploy, Practice, Practise, Sport), تفریح (Diversion, Gust, Jaunt, Play, Recreation), سرگرمی (Avocation, Diversion, Fun, Game, Hobby, Hobbyhorse, Recreation, Sport, Toy). (various references)

Finnish

ajankulu, ajanhukkaviete. (various references)

French

divertissement, distraction. (various references)

German

zeitvertreib (pastimes, play, pursuit, way of passing the time). (various references)

Greek 

απασχόληση (activity, employment, engrossment, hire, livelihood, occupation, operation, preoccupation, profession, running). (various references)

Hebrew 

משחק (acting, game, play, plaything, sport), שעשוע (amusement, delight, enjoyment, entertainment, fun, game, plaything, pleasure, sport). (various references)

Hungarian

szórakozás (amusement, distraction, divertissement, entertainment, fling, fun, high jinks, junket, picnic, play, pleasure, recreation, refreshing, relaxation, sport), idõtöltés (kill time, ploy, pursuit). (various references)

Indonesian

liburan (holiday, vacation). (various references)

Italian

passatempo (amusement, diversion, hobby, killtime, pursuit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遊び事 (diversion, game, recreation), �"楽 (dissipated, dissipation, hobby). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どうらく (dissipated, dissipation, hobby), あそび�"と (diversion, game, recreation). (various references)

Korean 

과거. (various references)

Manx

gamman ceau emshir. (various references)

Pig Latin

astimepay

Portuguese

passatempo (avocation, game, hobby, ploy, sport). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

passatempo. (various references)

Romanian

zãbavã (amusement, delay, retardation, tardiness), recreaţie (break, intermission, interval, recreation, rest), joc (acting, dance, dancing, game, lap, lost motion, recreation, sport, sporting), distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, do, drollery, entertainment, frolic, fun, jest, jocularity, jollity, merriment, merry making, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, sporting), amuzament (amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, entertainment, jest, jocularity, picnic, recreation). (various references)

Russian 

игра (game, innings, performance, piping, play, potato head, racquetball, slack, sporting). (various references)

Scottish

mire (diversion, frolic; transport of rage, playing), cleasachd (sleight of hand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

provod (fun, junket), razonoda (amusement, avocation, dalliance, diversion, divertissement, leisure, recreation, relaxation), razbibriga (diversion), odmor (break, caesura, holiday, intermission, pause, quiet, recess, reposal, repose, respite, rest, vacation). (various references)

Spanish

pasatiempo (amusement, avocation, delay, durability, hobby, kill time, occupation, pursuit, relaxation, taste). (various references)

Swedish

tidsfördriv (amusement, idle pleasures, kill time, killing-time, time killer). (various references)

Turkish

meşgale, hobi (avocation, hobby), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport). (various references)

Ukranian 

розвага (beguilement, disport, distraction, diversion, divertissement, do, entertainment, fun, play). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trò tiêu khiển sự giải trí. (various references)

jocus, lude, ludum. (various references)

gomen. (various references)

desport. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pastime": pastimes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pastime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ipsative, Pajtim, partime, Paschke, passtime, pastami, pastie, pastina, Pastinaca, pastine, Pastino, pasttime, Patima, patme, Paxstone, Paytine, Plastimo, Praschma, Pratima. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: impaste.

-1 letter: misate, miseat, pastie, petsai, pietas, samite.

-2 letters: amies, emits, items, maist, mates, meats, metis, mites, paise, paste, pates, peats, pieta, pimas, piste, pitas, satem, sepia, septa, smite, spait, spate, spite, stamp, steam, stime, stipe, tames, tamis, tamps, tapes, tapis, teams, tempi, temps, tepas, times.

-3 letters: aims, aits, amie, amis, amps, apes, apse, ates, east, eats, emit, etas, imps, item, maes, maps, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, meta, mise, mist, mite, pams, pase, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, pias, pies, pima, pita, pits, same, samp, sate, sati, seam, seat, semi, sept, seta, sima, simp, sipe, site, smit, spae, spam, spat, spit, stem, step, tame, tamp, tams, tape, taps, team, teas, temp, tepa, ties, time, tips.

-4 letters: aim, ais, ait, ami, amp, ape, apt, asp, ate, eat, ems, eta, imp, ism, its, mae, map, mas, mat, met, mis, pam, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, sae, sap, sat, sea, sei, set, sim, sip, sit, spa, tae, tam, tap, tas, tea, tie, tip, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ai, am, as, at, em, es, et, is, it, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, pi, si, ta, ti.

+1 letter: campiest, campsite, impasted, impastes, mateship, palmiest, pastimes, primates, psammite, shipmate.

+2 letters: campsites, empathies, empathise, impacters, imparters, impastoed, impatiens, mateships, misparted, pantheism, playtimes, preadmits, psammites, ptomaines, rebaptism, septarium, shipmates, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, steamship, swampiest, tympanies.

+3 letters: ametropias, amplitudes, aposematic, assumptive, diplomates, empathised, empathises, empathizes, imparities, imperators, impetrates, implanters, implicates, imprecates, mastership, metaphysic, metaplasia, misadapted, mispainted, mispatched, mispatches, misplanted, multiphase, myopathies, palimpsest, palmitates, pantheisms, pantomimes, peacetimes, pegmatites, penultimas, protamines, psalterium, rebaptisms, reimplants, restamping, semipostal, separatism, septicemia, shipmaster, slipstream, spearmints, spermaceti, spermatial, spermatids, spermatium, stampeding, steamships, stepfamily, subprimate, sympathies, sympathise, sympathize, sympatries, trapeziums, tympanites.

+4 letters: atmospheric, champerties, compatibles, complicates, ectoplasmic, emancipates, empathising, esemplastic, hemipterans, impairments, impalements, impartments, impatiences, impatienses, imperatives, imperialist, impersonate, importances, impregnants, impregnates, intercampus, manipulates, masterpiece, masterships, metaphysics, metaplasias, metaplastic, misanthrope, mythopoeias, palimpsests, palmistries, parliaments, paternalism, patrimonies, peristomial, permeations, planimeters, polymathies, prestamping, primalities, primateship, printmakers, semipostals, semiprivate, sempiternal, separatisms, septicemias, shipmasters, slipstreams, spermacetis, subprimates, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, sympathetic, sympathised, sympathises, sympathized, sympathizer, sympathizes, sympetalies, taphonomies, temporaries, temptations, timepleaser, trampolines, tryptamines, ultrasimple.

+5 letters: aminopterins, amphetamines, amphibolites, amylopectins, antependiums, antinepotism, appointments, appraisement, approximates, atmospherics, comparatives, compensating, compensation, compensative, cryptomerias, displacement, distemperate, emancipators, epitheliomas, expatriatism, homeopathies, hypothermias, impeachments, imperialists, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, importancies, imprecations, impregnators, kleptomanias, lamplighters, laparotomies, madreporites, malpractices, mantelpieces, masterpieces, meanspirited, meatpackings, metamorphism, metaphysical, misanthropes, miscaptioned, misplacement, myelopathies, operationism, optimalities, parametrizes, paternalisms, pentamidines, permutations, planetariums, planetesimal, platemakings, polarimeters, postimperial, postmedieval, predicaments, predominates, premeditates, prenominates, primateships, problematics, reassumption, scapegoatism, scyphistomae, semipalmated, semiparasite, semitropical, slipstreamed, spermatozoid, stepfamilies, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, sympathetics, sympathizers, temporalizes, timepleasers, tomographies, trampoliners, watermanship.

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