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When weaving longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft, woof or filling and the method in which these threads are interwoven affects the characteristics of the cloth. | hobby |
Musicals include both spoken dialogue and songs and some forms of drama have incidental music or musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue. | hobby |
Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world though it is an aspect of all human societies a cultural universal. | hobby |
Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses and metals. | hobby |
Common methods of digital drawing include a stylus or finger on a touchscreen device, stylus or finger to touchpad or in some cases, a mouse. | hobby |
Sugar confectionery includes candies candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. | hobby |
It was introduced by gurus from India after the success of Swami Vivekananda adaptation of yoga without asanas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. | hobby |
In gardening ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use. | hobby |
Most modern video games are audiovisual with audio complement delivered through speakers or headphones and sometimes also with other types of sensory feedbacks. | hobby |
some video games also allow microphone or webcam inputs for in game chatting and livestreaming. | hobby |
Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands on healing through which a universal energy is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing. | hobby |
The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing and maintaining items that are of interest to an individual collector. | hobby |
Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees and herbaceous plants. | hobby |
Gardening ranges in scale to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings and to container gardens grown inside or outside. | hobby |
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique such as mindfulness or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought or activity to train attention and awareness and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. | hobby |
In classic Sudoku the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each column, each row and each of the nine 3 × 3 subgrids that compose the grid contain all of the digits from 1 to 9. | hobby |
Other forms of human movement are sometimes said to have a dance like quality including martial arts, gymnastics, cheerleading, figure skating, synchronized swimming, marching bands and many other forms of athletics. | hobby |
Among English speaking countries where these games are not widely played only specially designed cartomantic tarot cards are readily available and they are used primarily for novelty and divinatory purposes. | hobby |
The outcome of this activity also called writing and sometimes a text is a series of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred or digitally represented linguistic symbols. | hobby |
The rules of chess evolved over the centuries with the last major changes being introduced in the 15th century and winning acceptance by the 19th century. | hobby |
DIY can be seen as a cultural reaction in modern technological society to increasing academic specialization and economic specialization which brings people into contact with only a tiny focus area within the larger context. | hobby |
There are usually many active stitches on the knitting needle at one time and knitted fabric consists of a number of consecutive rows of connected loops that intermesh with the next and previous rows. | hobby |
Bonsai uses cultivation techniques like pruning, root reduction, potting, defoliation and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full size trees. | hobby |
Lyrics are typically displayed on a video screen along with a moving symbol changing colour or music video images to guide the singer. | hobby |
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. | hobby |
Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling to scenes from the life of Buddha. | hobby |
The practice of bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfing but dwarfing generally refers to research, discovery or creation of plants that are permanent, genetic miniatures of existing species. | hobby |
Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration and abstraction. | hobby |
Writing can also have knowledge transforming effects since it allows humans to externalize their thinking in forms that are easier to reflect on, elaborate, reconsider and revise. | hobby |
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance a play, opera, mime, ballet, performed in a theatre or on radio or television. | hobby |
As a term metalworking covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale from huge ships, buildings and bridges down to precise engine parts and delicate jewelry. | hobby |
Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific muscle or tendon is deliberately flexed or stretched in order to improve the muscle felt elasticity and achieve comfortable muscle tone. | hobby |
Poetry also called verse is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to or in place of a prosaic ostensible meaning. | hobby |
A fabric band that meets this definition of cloth can also be made using other methods including tablet weaving, back strap loom or other techniques that can be done without looms. | hobby |
The early French occultists claimed that tarot cards had esoteric links to ancient Egypt, the Kabbalah, Indic Tantra, or the I Ching, and these claims have been frequently repeated by authors on card divination. | hobby |
Differences in yarn, needle size, and stitch type allow for a variety of knitted fabrics with different properties, including color, texture, thickness, heat retention, water resistance and integrity when knitting. | hobby |
Originally called the Magic Cube the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Pentangle Puzzles in the UK in 1978 then by Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer. | hobby |
Taekwondo is a combat sport and was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by Korean martial artists with experience in martial arts such as karate, Chinese martial arts, and indigenous Korean martial arts traditions such as Taekkyon, Subak and Gwonbeop. | hobby |
The source specimen is shaped to be relatively small and to meet the aesthetic standards of bonsai which emphasizes not the entirety of grand sceneries but rather only the tree itself. | hobby |
The first known appearance of the word yoga with the same meaning as the modern term is in the Katha Upanishad which was probably composed between the fifth and third centuries BCE. | hobby |
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. | hobby |
Writing systems do not themselves constitute languages they are a means of rendering language into a form that can be reconstructed by other humans separated by time or space. | hobby |
Collecting these cards became popular with radio listeners in the 1920s and 1930s and reception reports were often used by early broadcasters to gauge the effectiveness of their transmissions. | hobby |
The result of engraving may be a decorated object in itself as when silver, gold, steel or glass are engraved or may provide an intaglio printing plate of copper or another metal for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations. | hobby |
Engraved gems were an important art in the ancient world revived at the Renaissance although the term traditionally covers relief as well as intaglio carvings and is essentially a branch of sculpture rather than engraving as drills were the usual tools. | hobby |
Many simpler metalworking techniques such as blacksmithing are no longer economically competitive on a large scale in developed countries. | hobby |
Many simpler metalworking techniques are still in use in less developed countries for artisanal or hobby work or for historical reenactment. | hobby |
An important distinction is to be drawn between the contexts of theatrical and participatory dance. | hobby |
Theatrical and participatory dance are not always completely separate both may have special functions whether social, ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial or sacred liturgical. | hobby |
Bonsai can be created from nearly any perennial woody stemmed tree or shrub species that produces true branches and can be cultivated to remain small through pot confinement with crown and root pruning. | hobby |
The linear model holds that yoga originated in the Vedic period as reflected in the Vedic textual corpus and influenced Buddhism according to author Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle this model is mainly supported by Hindu scholars. | hobby |
The term should be reserved for plants that are grown in shallow containers following the precise tenets of bonsai pruning and training resulting in an artful miniature replica of a full grown tree in nature. | hobby |
Lawful hunting is distinguished from poaching which is the illegal killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species and the species that are hunted are referred to as game or prey and are usually mammals and birds. | hobby |
There are many techniques for stretching in general but depending on which muscle group is being stretched. | hobby |
Some stretching techniques may be ineffective or detrimental, even to the point of causing hypermobility, instability, or permanent damage to the tendons, ligaments and muscle fiber. | hobby |
Yoga is a group of physical, mental and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness consciousness untouched by the mind and mundane suffering. | hobby |
BJJ revolves around the concept taken from traditional Japanese jūjutsu that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger, heavier opponent. | hobby |
BJJ revolves around the concept that by using leverage and weight distribution, taking the fight to the ground and using a number of holds and submissions to defeat them. | hobby |
While not all languages use a writing system those that do can complement and extend capacities of spoken language by creating durable forms of language that can be transmitted across space and stored over time. | hobby |
Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation to remove predators that can be dangerous to humans or domestic animals to remove pests that destroy crops or kill livestock or for trade. | hobby |
Individual collectors often specialize for example collecting examples of the various colors and forms taken by the mineral calcite, calcite from widely scattered locations in a region or the world or minerals found in pegmatites. | hobby |
A system of writing relies on many of the same semantic structures as the language it represents such as lexicon and syntax, with the added dependency of a system of symbols representing that language phonology and morphology. | hobby |
Historic pottery of all these types is often grouped as either fine wares relatively expensive and well made and following the aesthetic taste of the culture concerned. | hobby |
Hunting is a practice in which a certain type of animal is killed in a certain way. | hobby |
Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a desired shape and heating them to high temperatures in a bonfire, pit or kiln. | hobby |
In sneaker collecting the birth of sneakerhead culture in the United States came in the 1980s. | hobby |
The sneaker collecting can be attributed to two major sources basketball specifically the emergence of Michael Jordan. | hobby |
The sneaker collecting can be attributed to Air Jordan line of shoes released in 1985 and the growth of hip hop music. | hobby |
Amateur geology or rock collecting also referred to as rockhounding in the United States and Canada is the non professional study and hobby of collecting rocks and minerals or fossil specimens from the natural environment. | hobby |
In Australia, New Zealand and Cornwall the activities of amateur geologists are called fossicking. | hobby |
More people have been drawn to amateur geology for recreational purposes mainly for the beauty that rocks and minerals provide. | hobby |
Auto detailing is an activity that keeps the vehicle in its best possible condition especially cosmetic as opposed to mechanical. | hobby |
Auto detailing is achieved by removing both visible and invisible contaminants from the vehicle interior and polishing the exterior to its original blemish free finish. | hobby |
The most basic auto detailing options include an exterior wash and wax, interior vacuuming, window cleaning and surface polishing. | hobby |
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. | hobby |
Astronomy uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and evolution. | hobby |
Objects of interest in astronomy include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and comets. | hobby |
Relevant phenomena in astronomy include supernova explosions, gamma ray bursts, quasars, blazars, pulsars, and cosmic microwave background radiation. | hobby |
More generally astronomy studies everything that originates beyond Earth's atmosphere. | hobby |
Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that studies the universe as a whole. | hobby |
Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences. | hobby |
In the past Astronomy included disciplines as diverse as astrometry, celestial navigation, observational astronomy and the making of calendars. | hobby |
Nowadays professional Astronomy is often said to be the same as astrophysics. | hobby |
Professional Astronomy is split into observational and theoretical branches. | hobby |
Observational Astronomy is focused on acquiring data from observations of astronomical objects. | hobby |
Theoretical astronomy is oriented toward the development of computer or analytical models to describe astronomical objects and phenomena. | hobby |
Astronomy is one of the few sciences in which amateurs play an active role. | hobby |
Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back while hiking for more than a day. | hobby |
Backpacking is often an extended journey and may involve camping outdoors. | hobby |
In North America tenting is common where simple shelters and mountain huts widely found in Europe are rare. | hobby |
In New Zealand, hiking is called tramping and tents are used alongside a nationwide network of huts. | hobby |
Hill walking is an equivalent in Britain but this can also refer to a day walk though backpackers make use of a variety of accommodation in addition to camping. | hobby |
Backpackers use simple huts when backpacking in South Africa. | hobby |
Trekking and bushwalking are other words used to describe such multi day trips. | hobby |
Backpacking as a method of travel is a different activity which mainly uses public transport during a journey which can last months. | hobby |
Beachcombing is an activity that consists of an individual combing or searching the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest or utility. | hobby |
A beachcomber is a person who participates in the activity of beachcombing. | hobby |
Despite these general definitions beachcombing and beachcomber are words with multiple but related meanings that have evolved over time. | hobby |
Beekeeping or apiculture is the maintenance of bee colonies commonly in man made beehives. | hobby |
In beekeeping honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. | hobby |
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