Spare Time

Definition: Spare Time

Spare Time

Noun

1. Time when you are free to do things that you enjoy.

2. To that is free for leisure activities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Spare Time

Leisure

Noun: leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday, relaxation; (rest); otium cum dignitate, ease.

Occasion

Nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field; mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time; (leisure).

Crosswords: Spare Time

Pretty girls make them in their spare time. (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes)

An aircraft engineer down the penninsula designed it; he worked it out in his spare time. (Vertigo; writing credit: Pierre Boileau; Thomas Narcejac)

I read to the blind and in my spare time I'm a mento to kids. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Spare Time (1939)

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Books

• How I Turned $1,000 into Five Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time (reference)

• The Stefanchik Method: Earn $10,000 a Month for the Rest of Your Life-In Your Spare Time (reference)

• A Guerrila Manual for the Adult College Student : How to Go to College (Almost) Full Time in Your Spare Time....and Still Have Time to Hold Down a Job, Raise a Family, Pay the Bills and Have Some Fun! (reference)

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One of Erasty Emvich's sons weaving a rug in farmhouse near Battle Ground, Indiana. Mr. Emvich, tenant farmer and father of twelve children, also weaves in his spare time. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the embroideries made by Mr. Gaetano Simone, Italian FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Made a number of years ago during his spare time while unemployed. Westville, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

kohë e tepërt. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فراغ (air, blank, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void), ‏وقت الراحة (time out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свободно време (disengagement, ease, leeway, leisure, leisure time). (various references)

Chinese 

空�' (free time), 業余 (amateur). (various references)

Czech

volný èas (leisure). (various references)

Danish

ferie (time off, vacation). (various references)

Dutch

vakantie (time off, vacation). (various references)

Esperanto

libertempo (time off, vacation). (various references)

Finnish

vapaa-aika (leisure), joutoaika (free time, leisure, time off). (various references)

French

vacances, temps libre, temps de plaisir, loisirs (spare, spare-time activities), loisir, congé. (various references)

Frisian

fakânsje (time off, vacation). (various references)

German

freizeit (free time, leisure, leisure time). (various references)

Greek 

ελεύθερη ώρα. (various references)

Hebrew 

פ� אי (leisure). (various references)

Hungarian

szabad idő (ease, free time), ráérő idő (ease), felesleges idő, üres óra. (various references)

Indonesian

waktu luang (leisure). (various references)

Italian

tempo libero (free, free time, leisure, leisure time, spare, time off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

閑 (farewell, free time, leave, leisure), 暇 (farewell, free time, leave, leisure), 余暇 (leisure, leisure time). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひま (castor oil plant, farewell, free time, leave, leisure), か�" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), いとま (farewell, free time, leave, leisure), よか (expected price, leisure, leisure time, preparatory course, preparatory department, probableprice). (various references)

Manx

traa seyr (break, breaking up, recess). (various references)

Norwegian

ferie (holiday, time off, vacation). (various references)

Papiamen

vakashon (time off, vacation), fakansi (time off, vacation). (various references)

Pig Latin

arespay imetay

Polish

wczasy (time off, vacation), urlop (time off, vacation). (various references)

Portuguese

férias (lay-off, leave, playday, vacation). (various references)

Russian 

свободное время (leisure time). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slobodno vreme (leisure, leisure time). (various references)

Spanish

ratos libres, horas libres. (various references)

Swedish

semester (holiday, time off, vacation), fritid (leisure, leisure hours, leisure time, playtime), fristund, ferier (time off, vacation). (various references)

Turkish

boş zaman (leisure time, spare hours), boş vakit (leisure). (various references)

Ukrainian

вільний час (leisure, off). (various references)

otio, otium. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emeritas, emirates, emptiers, parietes, primates, steamier, temperas.

-2 letters: aeriest, amperes, aperies, armpits, emerita, emirate, empires, emprise, emptier, empties, epimers, imarets, imparts, impaste, impresa, imprese, imprest, maestri, meatier, metepas, metiers, mispart, misrate, parties, pastier, pastime, peatier, permits, pestier, piaster, piastre, pirates, premies, premise, primate, reemits, remates, repeats, respite, restamp, retapes, reteams, retimes, seamier.

+1 letter: impetrates, imprecates, spermaceti.

+2 letters: champerties, hemipterans, imperatives, impersonate, impregnates, masterpiece, permeations, planimeters, semiprivate, sempiternal, spermacetis, temporaries, timepleaser.

+3 letters: appraisement, distemperate, impersonated, impersonates, madreporites, masterpieces, meanspirited, parametrizes, polarimeters, predicaments, predominates, premeditates, prenominates, semiparasite, slipstreamed, temporalizes, timepleasers.

+4 letters: amphitheaters, appraisements, disparagement, exemplarities, hyperthermias, intemperances, intercompares, kapellmeister, parameterizes, passementerie, pedestrianism, performatives, polarimetries, premarketings, prematurities, premeditators, proximateness, semiparasites, semipermanent, sempiternally, spermatogenic, temporalities, temporariness.