Gearless hobbies?

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#21

Eh. One and done with that stuff. Not like the 4th pitch shifter/harmonizer I just bought that’s not better than the last 2, just different.

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#22

I have studied Judo from a young age. Although not as active as I would prefer these days, it is still a part of my life.

Unfortunately, my other hobbies are not gearless.

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#23

Ah, I’m awful - I end up with shoes for long all-day climbing on long multi-pitch routes, bouldering shoes, shoes when trying to push my grade, blue water soloing shoes etc :frowning: (I think I have about 4 or 5 rock boots on the go…)

#24

Given that almost any hobby requires something but… as far as minimal specific gear:

Running, Chess, Hiking, Driving around exploring backroads/etc (granted it requires a car but that’s something I’d have anyway)

And interests that seem to be pretty rare:

Three really expensive ones: First edition books, Art Deco era posters, Children’s book illustration artwork

Three others that are cheap: Visiting/finding filming locations, Local history (Especially New England), 1000+ piece puzzles

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#25

Walking. I love going for long walks, often with no destination in mind, just improvising along the way. Clears the mind, and gives a little sense of adventure. Sometimes I come across a store or bar I have never been to and pop in. Sometimes it takes me to the lake. It always takes me somewhere.

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#26

I have an essential tremor disease

#27

Uh, that is very sad
Wish you all the best

#28

Pondering that leads to existential dread?

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#29

For me, hitch hiking is another gearless hobby, but since COVID I didn’t hitch hike

#30

Thanks! Wish you all the bes too!

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#31

Ive recently taken up Horse Whispering as a hobby…

On Red Dead Redemption that is

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#32

Kung fu. (Yeah really)
Requires zero gear, but much dedication. I like it because it’s good for my brain, and good for the body. I like the mind over matter aspect, and I like thats its non competative.

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#33

I’ve developed an obsession with macroeconomics and markets.
I’m a socialist, I don’t even wanna be rich. But it’s fascinating because it’s so disputatious, and consequential, and overlaps in interesting ways with politics and history and psychology and maths.
Anyway, no gear required.

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#34

Napping

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#35

I never nap without my nappies

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#36

Transcendental meditation

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#37

Funny original post, which I might not have read correctly but here is my answer anyway -

Guitar as a musical endeavour is my number one. Love it as it is self contained: it’s a pleasure and a challenge to master over many lifetimes, but you can chose your own challenge. It could be for mere accompaniment to songwriting or it could be as a savant finger picker or it could be as a virtuouso soloist. It’s whatever you want it to be. So endless expressive journeys. Most poignant for me in the last year is, after a few decades, appreciating rhythm: it sounds so fundamental, obvious and simple, but the 6 string 12 fret puzzle is endless.
So yes, guitar is likely my number one hobby based on time spent enjoying it, rather than as a decision.
Next after that +1 is electronic music, in about 3 categories. One of which is sheer interest in the technology, following development. One of which is hardware engagement; implementing modules. One of which is actually utilising it for creation. The order keeps changing and a lot of which is tantamount to voyeurism and train spotting.
Sandwiched between guitar and electronic music is songwriting. More an aspiration than a hobby but something I hope to achieve as a big resolver to all my years having musical interests.

All of the above are gear-hobbies.

Gearless hobbies? Thinking about life, myself, people and what we are all doing and why … it’s not a hobby but I do it every day so it must be something.

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#38

I think I do something similar which I like if I am understanding you correctly.

I like watching old and new video footage of streets and people, even people watch in a coffee shop and wonder what their life is or must have been like wherever they are from.

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#39

I hear you. Some of the re-rendered film from 100 years ago in high def colour of people on the streets of NY, Paris, Dublin or Berlin (etc) restore our sense of historical perspective.

They are just milliseconds in the past compared to the Renaissance, the Romans, the Ice Age. Yet they seem like an alien past.
It is profound how our sense of even our own personal recent history slips in to a cloudy film reel of highlights of scant memories.

#40

I have many gearless hobbies.

They are as follows:

  1. Winding up my wife.
  2. Winding up my kids.
  3. Winding up my dogs.
  4. Having a bit of a sit down.
  5. Meditation.
  6. Shouting at birds.
  7. Shouting at cats.
  8. Having a bit of a lie down.
  9. Recreational sleeping.
  10. Shouting at the sky.
  11. Looking at my fence that I’m not going to paint.
  12. Shouting “PARKOUR!” at passers by when I’m out and about before running into a wall or something.
  13. Rocking out to my tinitus.
  14. Doing press ups in front of my neighbours.
  15. Thinking about lists.
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