WHAT IS A HOBBY, INTEREST, PASTIME OR SPORT?

The Oxford dictionary describes a 'Hobby' as a favourite subject or occupation that is not ones main business, that an 'Interest' is something that excites curiosity or attention, that a 'Pastime' is a recreation, game or sport, and that a 'Sport' is an activity for exercise, pleasure or competition.

Described collectively and a little more fully a hobby, interest, pastime or sport is something to do with your spare time, either on your own or in a group, now and again or regularly, purely for entertainment, for your own satisfaction or competitively, indoors or outside. In fact anything– the common denominator is enjoyment.

HIPS™ does not claim to cover every aspect of every subject, as the topic is so varied with most activities having side interests of their own. The subject is never ending, and constantly evolving. What the HIPS™ project will do, is show you that there is something for every one of us to get totally involved in, and never find ourselves in the position of saying “I am bored, what shall I do”?

The HIPS Finder database has been contructed over the last 15 years and in the last 2 years this has been upgrade to an online format.This has allowed HIPS Club Finder and HIPS Ad Finder to develop as fully searchable databases. As the internet is continually evolving we are bringing new fetaures online all the time having recently implimented Google Maps and Google directions.

If you think we have an activity missing please visit our Recommend a HIPS page.

We look forward to seeing this grow in the coming months.