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The History of the word “Hobby”
The word owes its origin to a small horse called ‘hobby’. A hobby-horse was a wooden toy which children rode like a real horse, hobby. From this came the expression “to ride one’s hobby-horse”, meaning “to follow your favourite pastime”, and in turn, hobby in the modern sense means activity for enjoyment.
There are hobbies for every personality, lifestyle and budget. Popular hobbies often involve collecting items like coins, stamps, baseball cards, working with your hands like sewing, embroidery or performing an outdoor activity like clowning, hiking or bird watching.
Creating something useful or making things for decoration can be both practical and fun. Acting, play writing, poetry, playing an instrument, collecting music CDs, or writing song lyrics are all good ways to spend a quality time. Radio controlled model cars, airplanes, helicopters or boats have opened up a wide spread, interesting activity.
Board and card games like chess, checkers are a great way to stimulate your mind and meet new people. Just remember that the most important thing is that you have fun with whatever hobby you choose.

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  • Radio controlled model cars, airplanes, helicopters have become a popular interesting activity.
  • The origin of the word ‘hobby’ is connected with a small horse called ‘Hobby’.
  • Hobby-horses were rather expensive toys many years ago.
  • There are not so many hobbies for people to choose from.
  • If you want to meet new people and make your brain work better, play board and card games.
  • The expression ‘To ride one’s hobby – horse’ means “to play different sport games”.
  • Collecting baseball cards and coins is more difficult than sewing or bird watching.