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Spell Bee Word: Hobby


What does hobby mean?

Word: Hobby

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hobby means something you enjoy doing in your free time, such as reading, drawing or collecting stamps.

Synonyms: interest

How do you spell hobby?

Syllables: hob - by

Tricky part: Hobby is a double-letter word: the b comes twice. Children hear one b sound, so they often write only one.

Watch out for: hoby, hopy

Memory tip: A hobby is something you do again and again, so the b comes again too.

Hobby in a sentence

Example 1: My hobby is drawing birds.

Example 2: Rohan has a hobby of collecting old coins.

Example 3: Gardening became my grandmother's hobby after she moved to Pune.

Fun Fact

Hobby comes from hobby horse, a toy horse on a stick. Riding one was just for fun, and the word later came to mean any activity done for pleasure.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

hobb_

a) u
b) i
c) y
d) e

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c) y. The end sound is written with y, as in happy and sunny.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) hobby
b) hoabby
c) habby
d) haubby

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a) hobby. The first vowel is a plain o, as in hot and dog.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

bhoyb

a) hbboy
b) hybbo
c) hobby
d) ohbby

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c) hobby. Read each one aloud: the others cannot be said as a real word.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

hobby

a) chore
b) duty
c) pastime
d) lesson

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c) pastime. A pastime is something you do for pleasure. A chore or a duty is something you have to do.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these could be a hobby?

a) eating lunch
b) waking up
c) washing hands
d) flying kites

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d) flying kites

2. Sahil's hobby is painting. What does he need most?

a) brushes and colours
b) pots and pans
c) bats and balls
d) socks and shoes

Show answer

a) brushes and colours

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: interest

More words from this list

mother, purr, sleep, trick, annoyed, brother, crawl, feel

Next steps

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