Calculators (and related mental activities) as hobby or as avocation?

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(08-26-2017 06:59 PM)pier4r Wrote:  * Indeed today I asked on internet how can I define this with a word and I got "avocation". Nice one, I checked the translations in Italian and they are not as good as avocation. Neither they are in German according to dict.cc (Nebenbeschäftigung is more like a second job or minor occupation).

Sul mio Zanichelli, alla pagina 575:

Quote:passatèmpo n.m. (pl. passatèmpi) occupazione adatta a trascorrere il tempo libero in modo piacevole: il gioco degli scacchi è il mio passatempo preferito SIN. hobby.

Isn't that good enough? Just curious, as incidentally that's the same word we use for hobby in Portuguese (although people here in Brazil, young and old, prefer the latter, it seems).

Gerson.