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Meanings of popular pastime in English

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Usage of popular pastime in English
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Largely through his efforts, birdwatching became the popular pastime it is today.
The Irish Times
2
A popular pastime for local climbers is speed climbing the Third Flatiron.
Climbing Magazine
3
The former indifference completely vanished and hyphen-hunting became a popular pastime.
Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
4
Tonight Jack Perkins presents the radio retrospective on New Zealand's most popular pastime, sport.
Radio NZ
5
Music and singing was a popular pastime after supper; everyone was expected to participate.
Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
6
No wonder that the trashing of sugar-cane is not a popular pastime among Britishers.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
7
Paid-for sex is a popular pastime in the United Kingdom.
Wired
8
Border patrol is a more popular pastime here than golf, cricket and fox-hunting combined.'
Bedlam
9
You can't please everybody, and grousing about the Oscars has become a popular pastime.
Reuters
10
Angling now rivals football as Britan's most popular pastime.
The Guardian
11
Gambling with cards was a popular pastime after dinner.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
12
Others too may be found in the same field, and Lombard will become a popular pastime.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
13
It was probably introduced into Scotland from Holland, and was a popular pastime as early as 1457.
Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs
14
Golf is also becoming a more popular pastime for emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia, India and China.
BBC
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The most popular pastime was mimic warfare, wherein the actualities of wounds and even deaths were common constituents.
The Tragedies of the Medici
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Clearly, pounding the pavement is a popular pastime in Boston, where the biggest annual event is a marathon.
BBC
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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