Adopt-A-Hobby

"Quirks are well and good and often hilarious, but I find it useful to know how my characters spend their time when they have the choice. (Of course, right now, I have no idea). There's the regular stuff like baseball, making model airplanes, or writing novels, but what about some really out there hobbies? Or some not-so-out-there ones that other people might not think of? Made-up hobbies that could be awesome?" -arrowsforpens

 

 

 

Adult ballet classes 

Afghans for Afghans (Crocheting and Knitting for charity)

Anime

Antique books

Astronomy

Babysitting

Baking

Basket weaving/Underwater basket weaving

Beadwork

Beerpong

Being a clown

Bird watching

Boxing

Breeding Beta fish

Building forts out of everything they can find

Building model airplanes / boats / trains / buildings / etc

Building something (like a boat) with no power tools; carpentry at its most basic form

Buying and wearing shirts with a central theme (I collect ones that have desserts, mostly cupcakes)

Buying old worn-out toys and redecorating them

Cat hoarding

Cake decorating

Candle pin Bowling

Carving

Celebrity tax dodger

Chessboxing (I did not make this up. Wikipedia it.) 

Civil War reenactments

Coin counting and sorting

Cloudwatching

Coffin-building (Even better, coffin-furniture-building. You know, coffins made into bookcases, window seats, etc... I've even seen one coffin entertainment centre. Link to)

Collecting and practicing with swords

Collecting and proudly wearing ironic slogan t-shirts

Collecting commemorative NASCAR plates

Collecting things (cards, antique tea sets, scabs, action figures, bottle caps, rocks, stamps, toenails, corks, fortune cookie fortunes, tears, tea boxes, types of ta, cool pictures out of magazines, beer/root beer bottles, muffin recipes, resin wolf sculptures and figurines) 

Combining odd foods (A friend and I make bacon and potatoes all the time.)

Competitive bocce ball

Cooking

Cooking exotic, super spicy foods

Constructing man-sized bipedal animal costumes

Constructing marionettes

Cosplay

Cosplay Commissions

Counting things (including the lines that separate lanes on a road)

Covering Cars in Stickers

Craftster Swapping

Creating collages

Creating computer viruses

Crosstiching

Cup Stacking

Cycling (road bike)

Dance

Debate

Designing dream houses

Dogspotting (sitting someplace and recording what breeds of dogs you see where)

Drawing 

Dressing up as the opposite sex and going to a bar, seeing how many numbers will get

Duct tape art

Eating exotic foods

Exploring the world on Google Earth, pretending to go on vacation and learning obscure facts about countries

Extreme ironing

Filling boxes

Finding out when your friends have dates and 'just happening' to be at the same place at the same time

Flameworking

Flipping through every channel on the TV just to see what's on

Following politics

Freshwater plants of the Amazon

Furnishing bus stops

Gardening

Geocaching

Ghost hunting

Giving people unwanted advice 

Glass blowing

Going to concerts

Going to garage sales

Going to the movie theater and talking on the phone/fake crying through the whole movie

Graffiti

Graphic Design

Growing fruit in shapes other than their natural ones (Watermelons in squares, etc.) 

Hat making

Hair cutting

Hash House Harriers, the International Running and Drinking Club! http://www.gthhh.com/

Having a central animal theme to a room (e.g. Kitchens with chickens, living rooms with zebras, bathrooms with fish)

Hiking

Hot wiring cars

Internet trolling

Investigating the history of abandoned houses (A hobby of my group of friends. Extra fun 'cause of the danger of breaking into abandoned houses...)

Jai'alai

Jogging

Juggling

Keeping an aquarium/terrarium 

Killing pets

Kinetic domino art (seriously, look this up on YouTube)

Knitting (very in right now)

Language (outside of school if school-aged)

Lego sculpture

Letter Boxing

Live Action Roleplaying

Magic Tricks

Making animal noises at passers-by

Making stop motion animation 

Making beads - glass, polymer clay, etc.

Making lists

Magnetic poetry (Fridge magnet poetry)

Marathon running

Mask making

Matchstick modeling

Math

Metalsmithing

Milking cows

Miniatures

Modification/customization of almost anything: cars, books, toys, houses, clothes

Naming inanimate objects and random animals

Neopets

Old movies

Opening an electric device [e.g. remote, television, phone, clock] and putting it back together

Opera music

Origami/modular origami 

Painting 

Painting and decorating My Little Ponies to resemble celebrities

Painting self-portraits and/or portraits

Planting gardens in weird shapes

Post-it Noting cars (covering them in post-its)

Playing an instrument

Pilates

Painting spoons

Posting stuff on the internet

Photoshopping cats

Pouring resins, like for those paperweights with bugs in them

Practicing the triangle

Photoshopping

Photography

Practicing"wizardry" [even if your world contains no magic]

Prank calls

People-watching

Putting everything in color order

Parcour

Playing the didgeridoo

Potter

Pet breeding

Parasailing

Puppets

Pysanky 

Quilting

Raising/breeding/"farming" an unusual pet (hissing cockroach, Chinese water dragon, emu, alpaca, ant farm, etc.) 

Reading

Reading books backwards

Restoring vintage bicycles

Reloading spent ammo shells (goes well with shooting)

Reenacting famous WWII battles with miniature army men on realistic table-top terrain

Roleplaying

Sewing doll's clothing

Salsa dancing

SCA -- Society for Creative Anachronism

Scrapbooking

Scuba diving

Sculpting

Sculpting erotic garden statues

Setting things on fire

Sewing

Sewing stuffed animals

Sewing quilts for needy babies

Singing in a ban

Stained glass/copper foil glasswork -- expensive to get all the materials, but very fun and rewarding

Stalking

String figures/games

Soap carving

Soap/candle/lotion/perfume making

Spelling bees

Spelunking/caving

Spray painting bedroom

Swimming

Slack Lining

Stargazing

Stealing other peoples mail

Sorting the contents of the refrigerator

Taking casts of animal foot prints

Taking lots of baths

Talking to animals

Tarot cards

Tango

Training agility dogs

Trying out new hair styles and/or colors on a regular basis

Ultra marathon running

Visiting cemeteries

Video games

Vintage clothing

Video-making 

Videotaping re-enactions of famous plays/movies with him/herself playing all the roles

--Secretly distributing these videos (For example sneaking a video tape into a newspaper dispenser, for somebody to find later.)

Virtual pet sites

Wandering around a familiar city pretending to be a lost tourist

Whale watching

Wig styling

Writing!

Writing fanfiction

Writing pages and pages of lyrics for hip-hop opera (hip opera)

Writing letters to magazines and newspapers

Watching sappy movies on Friday nights

Whittling

Whip-cracking!

Yoga