All pastime antonyms

noun pastime

• ought — a cipher (0); zero.
• business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
• devoir — duty; obligation
• calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
• demesne — land, esp surrounding a house or manor, retained by the owner for his or her own use
• devoirs — compliments or respects; courteous attentions
• employment — The condition of having paid work.
• exercise — training, homework
• demesnes — possession of land as one's own: land held in demesne.
• enterprise — A project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort.
• metier — a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
• big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
• fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
• champaign — an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
• inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
• inhabitation — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
• function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
• lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
• job — the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.
• biz — Biz is sometimes used to refer to the entertainment business, especially pop music or films.
• field — Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
• grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
• livelihood — a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.
• department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• helotry — serfdom; slavery.
• biggie — People sometimes refer to something or someone successful, well-known, or big as a biggie.
• grindstone — a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
• aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
• deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
• endeavor — Try hard to do or achieve something.
• activity — Activity is a situation in which a lot of things are happening or being done.
• work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
• endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
• majors — Plural form of major.
• handicraft — manual skill.
• living — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
• committal — Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.
• fire in the belly — (Idiomatic) The emotional stamina and vigor, passion, or inner drive to achieve something, to take action, etc.
• backbreaker — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
• duty — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
• megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
• dos — any of several single-user, command-driven operating systems for personal computers, especially MS DOS.
• gym — a gymnasium.
• ballgame — any game played with a ball
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
• artifact — any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
• full court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.