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Definition of Spare-time activity
1. Noun. An auxiliary activity.
Generic synonyms: Interest, Pastime, Pursuit
Specialized synonyms: Spelaeology, Speleology
Derivative terms: Avocational, Hobbyist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spare-time Activity
Literary usage of Spare-time activity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Delinquency and Spare Time: A Study of a Few Stories Written Into the Court by Henry Winfred Thurston (1918)
"... of habitual spare-time activity with delinquency; (6) a contributory relation
of spare-time activities to delinquency through knowledge of, ..."
2. Journal of Social Hygiene by American Social Hygiene Association (1919)
"... and spare time reduce to two kinds: (a) a relation so close as to amount in
many cases to an identity of habitual spare-time activity with delinquency; ..."
3. The Social Hygiene Bulletin by American Social Hygiene Association (1919)
"... and spare time reduce to two kinds: (a) a relation so close as to amount in
many cases to an identity of habitual spare-time activity with delinquency; ..."
4. The Elementary School Curriculum by Frederick Gordon Bonser (1920)
"... all needful forms of spare- time activity. Love of the Beautiful. — In human
life there is an almost universal love of form and color. ..."
5. The Elementary School Curriculum by Frederick Gordon Bonser (1920)
"... helps the community to meet its responsibility for the adequate supply and
control of all needful forms of spare- time activity. Love of the Beautiful. ..."
6. The Elementary School Curriculum by Frederick Gordon Bonser (1921)
"Whatever you would have the adult enjoy as a wholesome spare- time activity, that
you should have him enjoy in school. In a very large sense, it may be said ..."
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