Other forms: pastimes
A pastime is something done regularly for enjoyment. A harmless pastime.
It is what fills time rather than what fills a life, which is the difference from a vocation. The word is literally time passed, which is why it has one s rather than two.
1nounpastimeSomething done regularly for enjoyment.
“Fishing was the only pastime he kept up for sixty years.”
pastime is an activity.
From Middle English passe tyme, a translation of French passetemps, something that passes the time.
Middle French
passetemps
Middle English
passe tyme
English, today
pastime
From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, Middle French passetemps.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA