What is another word for avocations?

Pronunciation: [ˌavəkˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Avocations are leisure activities that people engage in outside of their regular jobs or professions. Some synonyms for the word avocations include hobbies, pastimes, diversions, recreational pursuits, interests, and sidelines. Hobbies refer to activities that someone enjoys and pursues regularly in their free time, such as photography, painting, or gardening. Pastimes are similar and can include reading, traveling, or playing sports. Diversions are activities that provide a temporary distraction from the stresses of daily life, such as watching movies or playing video games. Recreational pursuits refer to physical activities such as hiking, swimming, or biking. Interests can refer to any area of curiosity or passion, and sidelines are subcategories of one's profession or skills, which one enjoys pursuing in their free time.

What are the hypernyms for Avocations?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Avocations

  • Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?
    Aldo Leopold
  • Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring. He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies.
    L. Frank Baum

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