childhood pastime

Kid's favorite activity

A childhood pastime is an activity people enjoyed regularly as children—games, hobbies, or amusements that filled leisure hours during youth.

The phrase often carries nostalgic weight, evoking simpler times: Reading comic books was a childhood pastime I've never outgrown.

She returned to her childhood pastime of building model airplanes.

Related

jump rope · hide and seek · tag · freeze tag · capture the flag · dolls · sandbox · swings · treehouse · recess · playing outside · cartoons · coloring · sidewalk chalk · blocks · pretend · make believe · imagination

Opposites
life stage activity

childhood pastimecareer

Lifelong occupational pursuit

midlife crisis · job

obligation vs. leisure

childhood pastimework

Effort toward a goal

chore · labor · duty · legal obligation · drudgery

work vs. play

childhood pastimeday job

Primary paid employment

breadwinning · toil · drudgery · hard work · employment

Family

childhood, pastime, child, time, children, childish, childlike, childless, childishly

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G