The phrase "practice a hobby" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to describe the act of regularly engaging in a particular hobby or leisure activity. Example: She spends most evenings practicing her hobby of painting, creating beautiful landscapes and portraits.
Many entrepreneurs have started by just practicing a hobby or exploring a talent or passion.
Post-baseball, he has devoted more time to golf, family vacations, and, especially, photography, which he practiced as a hobby throughout his playing career, sneaking out between games to take pictures in various Major League cities. (He has a shot of lower Manhattan, taken from the east side of the Brooklyn Bridge, with the Twin Towers in the background).
Practicing a favorite hobby?
When she's not practicing archery as a hobby -- "I feel like a little Katniss, but that started before The Hunger Games, just letting you know," she tells "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" in the above video -- the 14-year-old high school freshman juggles a busy schedule of work and academics.
In his spare time, Mr. Pearl practices an offbeat hobby: he is a champion knife and tomahawk thrower.
What I did have was years of practice making puppets as a hobby and performing them with my youth theatre, Theatrix.
Following a brief, captivating slide show exposing the secret world of rooftop and back-yard beekeeping in NYC, four unassuming beekeepers, two beginners and two veterans, took to the stage to dispel some common misconceptions about bees, explaining why their covert practice is not just a hobby, but an obligation.
Those who practiced a sport professionally were considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practiced it merely as a hobby.
Nina and Tim Zagat each spent more than two decades as a practicing lawyer before turning a hobby into a best-selling dining-out guide.
Mindfulness-based practices are not just a hobby for our free time or just a marketing trend.
