Hobbies and Leisure activities – vocabulary

• entertainment – zábava

SPORT ACTIVITIES

• playing ball games
• hiking (turistika)
• cycling, rowing (člnkovanie)
• jogging, swimming
• roller- skating (korčuľovanie na kolieskových korčuliach)
• skating (korčuľovanie na ľade)
• skate – boarding
• wind-surfing, wave-gliding (plachtenie)
• skiing, sledging (sánkovanie, sledge = sánky)
• camping. gathering mushrooms (zbieranie húb)

LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES

• playing a musical instrument
• playing cards/chess
• folk dancing
• modern dancing
• collecting (stamps, coins, tissues, beer mats, badges (odznaky), etc.)
• keeping pets ( such as dogs, cats, budgerigars (andulky)
• goldfish, snakes, mice, rats)
• a weekend cottage
• watching TV
• listening to music
• playing computer games
• chatting on the Internet
• browsing on the Internet
• reading books
• going to the cinema /theatre/concert/
• disco
• going out with friends
• walking the dog = taking the dog for a walk
• walking in the forrest
• doing shopping
• gardening, planting = sadenie
• keeping bees
• knitting /niting/ = pletenie
• crocheting = háčkovanie
• crochet = háčkovať
• embroidering = vyšívanie
• embroidery = vyšívanie
• sewing /sju:ing/ = šitie
• modelling of cars/ships/planes
• pottery lessons – hodiny hrnčiarstva
• studying foreign languages
• take up – začať nejakú aktivitu, hoby