List of 200 Hobbies

The easiest way to find a new hobby is to check out a thorough list of hobbies. If the list is long enough you’re bound to find something that looks interesting. We promise this is going to be the largest list of hobbies you’ve ever seen. I’d like to call it the worlds largest list, but I really have no way of proving it. If you find a hobby list longer than ours please let us know. I’d like to personally congratulate them.

1. Aircraft Spotting
2. Airbrushing
3. Acting
4. Aeromodeling
5. Amateur Astronomy
6. Amateur Radio
7. Animals/pets/dogs
8. Arts
9. Astrology
10. Astronomy
11. Backgammon
12. Badminton
13. Baseball
14. Basketball
15. Beach/Sun tanning
16. Beachcombing
17. Beadwork
18. Beatboxing
19. Becoming A Child Advocate
20. Bell Ringing
21. Belly Dancing
22. Bicycling
23. Bird watching
24. Birding
25. BMX
26. Blacksmithing
27. Blogging
28. BoardGames
29. Boating
30. Body Building
31. Bonsai Tree
32. Bowling
33. Brewing Beer
34. Bridge
35. Bringing Food To The Disabled
36. Building A House For Habitat For Humanity
37. Building Dollhouses
38. Butterfly Watching
39. Button Collecting
40. Calligraphy
41. Calligraphy
42. Camping
43. Candle Making
44. Canoeing
45. Car Racing
46. Casino Gambling
47. Cave Diving
48. Cheerleading
49. Chess
50. Church/church activities
51. Cigar Smoking
52. Cloud Watching
53. Coin Collecting
54. Collecting
55. Collecting Antiques
56. Collecting Artwork
57. Compose Music
58. Computer activities
59. Cooking
60. Cosplay
61. Crafts
62. Crafts (unspecified)
63. Crochet
64. Crocheting
65. Cross-Stitch
66. Crossword Puzzles
67. Dancing
68. Darts
69. Diecast Collectibles
70. Digital Photography
71. Dolls
72. Dominoes
73. Drawing
74. Dumpster Diving
75. Eating out
76. Educational Courses
77. Electronics
78. Embroidery
79. Entertaining
80. Exercise (aerobics, weights)
81. Fast cars
82. Fencing
83. Fishing
84. Football
85. Four Wheeling
86. Freshwater Aquariums
87. Frisbee Golf - Frolf
88. Games
89. Gardening
90. Garage Saleing
91. Genealogy
92. Geocaching
93. Ghost Hunting
94. Glowsticking
95. Going to movies
96. Golf
97. Go Kart Racing
98. Grip Strength
99. Guitar
100. Handwriting Analysis
101. Hang gliding
102. Hiking
103. Home Brewing
104. Home Repair
105. Home Theater
106. Horse riding
107. Hot air ballooning
108. Hula Hooping
109. Hunting
110. Illusion
111. Internet
112. Jet Engines
113. Jewelry Making
114. Jigsaw Puzzles
115. Juggling
116. Keep A Journal
117. Kitchen Chemistry
118. Kites
119. Kite Boarding
120. Knitting
121. Knotting
122. Lasers
123. Lawn Darts
124. Learn to Play Poker
125. Learning A Foreign Language
126. Learning An Instrument
127. Learning To Pilot A Plane
128. Legos
129. Listening to music
130. Macramé
131. Magic
132. Making Model Cars
133. Matchstick Modeling
134. Meditation
135. Microscopy
136. Metal Detecting
137. Model Rockets
138. Modeling Ships
139. Models
140. Motorcycles
141. Mountain Biking
142. Mountain Climbing
143. Musical Instruments
144. Needlepoint
145. Owning An Antique Car
146. Origami
147. Painting
148. Paintball
149. Papermaking
150. Papermache
151. Parachuting
152. People Watching
153. Photography
154. Piano
155. Pinochle
156. Playing music
157. Playing team sports
158. Pottery
159. Puppetry
160. Pyrotechnics
161. Quilting
162. Rafting
163. Railfans
164. R/C Boats
165. R/C Cars
166. R/C Helicopters
167. R/C Planes
168. Reading
169. Reading To The Elderly
170. Relaxing
171. Renting movies
172. Rescuing Abused Or Abandoned Animals
173. Robotics
174. Rock Collecting
175. Rockets
176. Rocking AIDS Babies
177. Running
178. Saltwater Aquariums
179. Scrapbooking
180. Scuba Diving
181. Sewing
182. Shark Fishing
183. Skeet Shooting
184. Shopping
185. Singing In Choir
186. Skateboarding
187. Sketching
188. Sky Diving
189. Sleeping
190. Smoking Pipes
191. Snorkeling
192. Soap Making
193. Soccer
194. Socializing with friends/neighbors
195. Spelunkering
196. Spending time with family/kids
197. Stamp Collecting
198. Storytelling
199. String Figures
200. Surf Fishing
201. Swimming
202. Tea Tasting
203. Tennis
204. Tesla Coils
205. Tetris
206. Texting
207. Textiles
208. Tombstone Rubbing
209. Tool Collecting
210. Toy Collecting
211. Train Collecting
212. Train Spotting
213. Travel
214. Traveling
215. Treasure Hunting
216. Trekkie
217. Tutoring Children
218. TV watching
219. Urban Exploration
220. Video Games
221. Volunteer
222. Walking
223. Warhammer
224. Watching sporting events
225. Windsurfing
226. Wine Making
227. Woodworking
228. Working In A Food Pantry
229. Working on cars
230. Writing
231. Yoga
232. YoYo

This is a growing list of hobbies. There is a good chance the next time you come back the list will have grown by another 10 or 20 hobbies. Do you have a hobby that needs to be added the list?

Thought provoking Quotes

There are certain quotations which do not advice. They do not preach. They are not judgmental.  They don’t claim that they are the Truth. But still you would have to think about each of them at least twice. The wisdom ingrained in them is sometimes not visible openly. That’s why I have categorized them as thought provoking. I have been getting the following quotes from a friend through email (The subject is Good Morning, though and with a neat picture). Some of them have indeed made my day, not just the morning. Have a look at a few selected ones that I have liked over the years.

• “The true mystery of the world is the visible; not the invisible”
• “Money is a very excellent servant; but a terrible master”
• “An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason”
• “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game”
• “Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind”
• “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
• “It’s not what you are called, but what you answer to”
• “Putting off an easy thing makes it hard”
• “Having enemies’ means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life”
• “Failure is not falling down; but staying down”
• “By learning to obey, you will know how to command”
• “To be content with a little is hard; to be content with much is impossible”
• “If you wish to travel far and fast, try traveling light, taking off all your burdens”
• “LUCK….. stands for Labouring Under Correct Knowledge”
• “Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them”
• “The future will be exactly like the past; only far more expensive”
• “Hardwork has a future pay-off; Laziness pays-off now”
• And how about this one to close: “Cheer up, the worst is yet to come” !!

Since by now, you would have known my interest in collecting different quotations which would make you read them once again, here are some more, which I found interesting:

• “Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them”
• “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to change it every six months”
• “Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them as much”
• “It’s human to think wisely but act in an absurd manner”
• “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good”
• “Truth, like surgery, may hurt but it cures”
• “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own”
• “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal”
• “You should not bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself”
• “What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become, is our gift to God”
• “Insanity in individuals is something rare. But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule”
• “There are three sides to every argument – Your side, My side and the Right side.”
• “Everyone should have a spouse, because there are a number of things that go wrong that one can’t blame the Government”
• “Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art”
• “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
• “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it generation after generation”

Kahan Gaye Tiger ?

Today, I posted my second entry on saving the tiger "Tiger Bachao via social networking". The Tiger count in the country was estimated about 3500-5000 (Approx). But after the 2007 Census, a mere 1500 wild cats roam free in India.. 1411 to be more precise..

Every one had a different view on people involved in Poaching. Some felt it is the correct punishment but some on the other hand felt that poachers should be fed to the Tigers .

Tiger Poachers 

I personally feel that people involved in poaching should be hanged. But sometime, I feel that Tigers should also be given a chance to deal with these killers the way they want. Not just feeding them but throwing them to hungry predators. But I know this is next to impossible. According to the official figures the population rose from 3508 in 1997 to 3642 in 2002. But in 2008 there is a fall of 60%. The figures of 2007 shows that only 1411 Tigers are left in the country known as the "The Land of Tigers".

There are several methods for Tiger Census "Prey Density Estimation", radio telemetry, digital photography of pugs, camera trapping method, Identification using DNA from Tiger droppings and the very famous "Pugmark Method". Camera trapping method is not practical especially where there are 1 or 2 Tigers per 100 sq. kms. This method was confined to a few major tiger habitats. The final fiure was an outcome of the new and advanced techniques used in 2007 cencus.

Encroachment by humans in their natural habitat and Poaching are the prime reasons for the fall. Relocation and Resettlement is only done on papers and is never taken seriously.

Tiger

How long are we going to remember these figures? It is quite possible that some might think about this issue after the next census. Wouldn’t it be a little too late? A decline of 60% in a decade makes the picture very clear. There is still hope if saving tigers is taken as a priority.

The World would not be as Beautiful as it is, Without Tigers…. !!!!