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# Hobby

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A hobby for a person is a spare-time pursuit (see recreation), practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than as paid work. Examples include collecting, making, tinkering, sports, adult education, and the like. Engaging in a hobby can sometimes lead to acquisition of substantial skill, knowledge, and experience.

What are hobbies for some people are professions for others: for example, a computer game tester may enjoy cooking as a hobby, while a professional chef might enjoy playing (and helping to debug) computer games. Generally speaking, the person who does something for fun and not for remuneration is called an amateur (or hobbyist), as distinguished from a professional?.

An important determinant of what is considered a hobby, as distinguished from a profession, is probably how easy it is to make a living at the activity. Almost no one can make a living at stamp collecting, but many people find it enjoyable; so it is commonly regarded as a hobby.

While some hobbies seem to most people to be trivial and uninteresting, the hobbyist has found something compelling and entertaining about the activity. Much early scientific research was, in effect, a hobby of the wealthy; in the present day, Linux began as a student's hobby.

Hobbies include:

- Collecting?
  - [Antique Collecting]?
  - [Art Collecting]?
  - [Book collecting]?
  - [Bottle collecting]?
  - [Card collecting]?
  - Coin collecting (Numismatics)
  - Stamp collecting (Philately)
  - [Comic book collecting]?
  - [Currency collecting]?
  - [Dog Breeding]?
  - [Doll collecting]?
  - [Miniature collecting]?
  - [Phone-card collecting]?
  - Character collecting, such as anything Elvis, or everything Mickey Mouse
  - this list needs to be continued!
- Gardening
- Cooking
- Genealogy
- [Historical Reenacting]?
- Music-making?
  - [Musical composition]?
- Model-building?
  - [Model airplane]?s
  - [Model car]?s
  - [Model house]?s
  - [Model ship]?s
  - [Model train]?s
  - [Model rocket]?s
- Sports
- Computer programming
- Amateur Astronomy
- Amateur Radio
- Games
  - [Miniature wargaming]?
  - Wargaming
  - Role-playing games
- Adding stuff to Wikipedia
- Arts and Crafts
  - Beadwork
  - Bookbinding?
  - [Breeding animals]?
  - Ceramics?
  - Cross-stitch
  - Crocheting?
  - Drawing?
  - Embroidery?
  - Knitting
  - Macrame?
  - [Making Kites]?
  - Needlepoint?
  - Quilting
  - Painting
  - Photography
  - Pottery?
  - Sculpture
  - Sewing?
  - Spinning
  - Weaving?
  - Woodworking

Please add to this list!!

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