# What are your hobbies?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 19, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194 "2005-07-19T20:29:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/1 "2005-07-19T20:29:34Z")
I have so many, I’ll probably forget a few, but:
Model trains
Model rockets
Music composition (more of a calling)
Music conducting (ditto)
Beading
Painting
Gaming (paper RPGs)
Snorkelling
Cooking
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/2 "2005-07-19T20:33:05Z")
Ooo!
Reading
RPGs
Painting (both miniatures and wood figurines)
Gardening
Beading
Knitting (I suck, but who cares?)
Cooking - sometimes
All kinds of games, board & otherwise
Did I say reading?
Writing letters
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/3 "2005-07-19T20:41:48Z")
Bicycling
Chess
Crosswords
Cooking (hobby/necessity. I do it for fun, relaxation and sustenance.)
Bygone hobbies. . .flute, running, poker.
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/4 "2005-07-19T20:42:09Z")
I just got in from a pleasant round of golf at a charity outing. So, yeah golf. Mainly for the exercise (I walk, don’t ride), cameraderie and challenge.
Reading.
Bicycling.
Pretending to garden/landscape.
My workout - weights and elliptical machine mostly.
Cooking and eating…
Seeing live music
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### Author:  [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/5 "2005-07-19T20:44:36Z")
Motorbiking
Amateur black and white film photography (darkroom stuff)
Road running
Cycling
Reading
That’s a depressingly short list for someone who spends their life very bored, but work’s pretty fun (high school lab tech) which makes up for it.
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### Author:  [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/6 "2005-07-19T20:51:16Z")
Cooking. I LOVE food!
Cross-stitch (a type of needlework/sewing. I don’t like any other kind of sewing though.)
Rollerblading
And a recent addition, kayaking
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/7 "2005-07-19T20:53:09Z")
> [@Trunk](#):
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> Cooking (hobby/necessity. I do it for fun, relaxation and sustenance.)
When does cooking cross over from being a household chore to a hobby? My guess is that when you start reading cookbooks to relax, it becomes a hobby.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/8 "2005-07-19T20:54:13Z")
> [@taxi78cab](#):
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> And a recent addition, kayaking
Aw crap, I forgot one–sailing. Although I don’t do it much anymore.
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### Author:  [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/9 "2005-07-19T21:02:24Z")
Hiking
Gardening
Reading
The SDMB - mostly lurking
Travel
My hobby job at a nursury
Digital photography
Collecting folding pocketknives, Asterix and TinTin comics, and stone eggs.
BBQing
Cooking
Napping…in fact, it is nearly time for my siesta!
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/10 "2005-07-19T21:02:46Z")
Reading
Gardening
Baking
Sporadic bouts of painting and poetry
Estate Sales, sometimes rummage sales–I collect vintage toys, dresses, and paste jewelry.
Knitting–this is a new one, I haven’t decided if it will have staying power yet or not
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/11 "2005-07-19T21:10:11Z")
Reading (which is really more of a necessity than a hobby)
Video games (console and PC)
Pen and Paper RPGs
Drawing
Jigsaw Puzzles (which includes time spent keeping the kitten off of the puzzle)
Knitting (which is pretty much entirely “making things for my nephew” now).
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/12 "2005-07-19T21:10:24Z")
Hobbies/interests from the past:
Knife throwing
Knife collecting
Hunting
Archery
Family camping
Hiking
Backpacking
Macrame’
USCF, postal and local club chess
Haiku poetry
Golf
Drums
Astronomy
Jazz record collecting
Hobbies/interests at present:
Guitar
Internet surfing
Crosswords
Jigsaw puzzles
Movies on DVD and cable
Reading
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/13 "2005-07-19T21:12:16Z")
Cats
Reading
Cross Stitch
Hockey (watching, not playing)
Collection carousel horses and cigarette lighters
When I lived in Atlanta, I worked at the Southeastern Railway Museum, helping restore old railway cars and steam engines.
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/14 "2005-07-19T21:16:03Z")
Reading
Word/Puzzle games
Cycling
Hiking
Camping
Bird watching
Wine tasting & pairing
Eating (My husband and I enjoy trying new/different restaurants in the area.)
Cooking (We experiment with new dishes. We enjoy shopping for the ingredients, cooking together, and digging in to our creations.)
Entertaining
Sailing (Not recently since we don’t have a boat at this time.)
Organized races/athletic events (It sort of helps me workout when I have a goal to strive for; a 100K bike ride, a 10K run, etc.) And I’ve become an event T-shirt whore.
The Internet - Livejournal, the SDMB, various news/magazine sites.
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/15 "2005-07-19T21:20:12Z")
Reading
Working out
Movies
Cooking
Sex
Internet crap
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/16 "2005-07-19T21:22:48Z")
Reading
Writing
Role playing
Sewing (by machine and hand, though not so much by hand)
Cross-stitch
Crochet
I don’t get to do the last few much anymore. Reminds me, I have a few cross-stitch on the go that I need to work on. They’ve been around for awhile.
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### Author:  [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/17 "2005-07-19T22:15:12Z")
Bicycling (BMX and ATB),
Piano and rock organ,
Amateur radio,
radio scanning,
cars (Mopar or nocar),
electronics,
websurfing.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/18 "2005-07-19T22:25:35Z")
1. I collect reproductions of WW2 propaganda posters.
2. I customize action figures. (It’s a process of painting and adding to an existing figure to otherwise improve upon it or change it’s ‘fuction’ so to speak)
3. I perform improv and sketch comedy.
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/19 "2005-07-19T22:45:22Z")
Reading
Writing
Random wandering around within a certain radius of my home–I have to do it on foot, so I don’t go far. Had I a car, this hobby would turn from walking around to driving around.
Shopping
Playing around on the internet
Board games, especially Scrabble and Monopoly
Cooking, though I’m still not very good at it
Singing
Washing dishes (I find it so relaxing I could consider it a hobby, I suppose)
Swimming
Talking about anything that comes into my head
Napping
Trying to find other hobbies, especially a physical activity that will hold my interest and not get me injured. This has been a fruitless quest and I’m out of ideas.
Damn, I am really boring, especially compared to you people.
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### Author:  [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hobbies/313194/20 "2005-07-19T22:46:27Z")
Things I do actively:
Rowing
Coaching
Tutoring ESL
Studying Japanese
Reading/collecting Japanese manga
Fanfic
Reading about health topics and life extension
Shoes/fashion
Way down on the priority list but things I’m still interested in:
Piano
Accordion
Cycling
Running
Vegetarian cooking
Um, there must be more but that’s all I can think of…
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