Synonyms:
diversion, recreation
Meaning: an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"
Usage examples
It's my chief form of recreation
The choice of recreation reacts upon the nature of the man.
Is his recreation permeated with a certain intellectual ambition?
This is a favourite recreation with the females and one in which Fayaway greatly excelled.
Her patriotic entertainment of soldiers who required her special order of support and recreation was fast and furious.
Ask those who make hunting their recreation or business, if in their excursions they meet with many sick or feeble animals.
Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.
Morne Rouge, a beautiful summer resort, frequented by the people of the island during the hot season as a place of recreation, also escaped.
At first my neck was cramped with looking at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays."
I should work every day from eight until one, and my leisure I should give to recreation and a search for the motives that lay behind the crafts and assaults of my enemies.