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That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.

Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.

ich turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game. Shak.

t men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.

monial. -- High German, or High Dutch. See under German. -- High jinks, an old Scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry; wild sport. [Colloq.] "All the high jinks of the county, when the lad comes of age." F. Harrison. -- High latitude (Geog.), one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from…

as his chiefest end; for the rational, the natural, and mathematics . . . were but simple pastimes in comparison of the other. Sir T. North.

created; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. It is as sport a fool do mischief. prov. x. 23. Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. Think it but a minute spent in sport. Shak.

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

returning light. Dryden. The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. Milton.