Words similar to pastime

Example sentences for: pastime

How can you use “pastime” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

) What they are doing is hanging out and engaging in that national pastime, spending money on junk.
Had he done so, it would probably not have surprised the commentators who saw the $311 million purchase of the franchise by Murdoch's News Corp. as final evidence of the sacrifice of the national pastime to the greed and disloyalty of players and owners.
Racing started as an informal pastime, but in 1840 Samuel Triscott (a local victualer) organized the first regatta.
Admittedly, there is no such thing as perfect synonymy, but the meanings of many pairs of words are close enough for this term to be used in the context of a pastime like crosswords.
A loutish college boyfriend who says maybe when Hillary was in college she engaged in a popular illegal national pastime of that period.