Meanings of chief pastime in English

He was irregular even in playing, which was after all his chief pastime.

Their festivals were fast days, and their chief pastime the singing of psalms.

The chief pastime in which the Court indulged was hunting.

Their chief pastime is weighing each other, for which purpose they are liberally provided with scales.

Fishing and swimming were their chief pastimes, with general marauding for adventure.

Fishing and swimming were their chief pastimes, with incidental raiding, for adventure.

These constituted his chief pastimes for the fourteen years that had elapsed since his Cherokee campaigns.

Indeed, collecting, fishing, and raising caterpillars, from which I reared fresh, beautiful butterflies, were then my chief pastimes.

This applies particularly to the Melanesian and Polynesian inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, whose chief pastimes are swimming and surf riding.

"My chief pastime at home was boxing," assured David.