Topic: Is Gambling A Hobby? - page 35. (Read 5950 times)

Gambling is indeed a hobby. Most persons might ague this because they think making gambling a hobby means you're getting addicted to it but that's not correct because the definition of hobby says "an activity that you love doing at your spare time" and that is what most of us do at our spare time. Some persons even go as far as gambling in their working hours which can  either make you loose your job or you getting addicted to gambling. I gamble when I have time for it and I make sure I don't do it in front of an underage.

Before giving my own opinion I want to say about my favorite hobby my favorite hobby is doing gardening and also playing computers games when I have the free times. Now I would like to say that I do these two hobbies only when other important tasks of my daily life are over. Sometimes I only spend one or two days a week gardening and playing games twice a month. I would like to say now that gardening and computer gaming can be a hobby of a person just like gambling can be a hobby of a person, but of course if it is kept under control and goes out of control, neither hobby will have any positive impact on life but will push life towards darkness.

It's probably almost the same when you have a hobby in vehicle modification and you don't have control. It can also hurt your finances.
Whatever your hobby, even if it is gambling, if you have limits and you adhere to those limits, then there will be no problems. Hobbies or habits that are carried out regularly, even in positive things such as sports, must also have limits and control. Don't use the word hobby as an excuse to do things beyond your limits.
Hobby is not the reason you can do more than others.

Don't make gambling a hobby, but fun is part of the hobby -> then it's the same thing right?

Hobbies in gambling will be considered bad by some people while hobbies in other fields will be considered good things like what you mentioned and so on.

As long as the hobby does not cause badness even though it is from gambling it should not be the benchmark for problems, the article is when you cannot control in gambling then this is the problem you will see.

As long as the competition is between you and the casino, some gambling games cease to be a hobby, but as long as you do not abuse your games, the games stay online for a limited time, we can describe this as a hobby, why not. I think many gamblers deceive themselves, too. Calling it a hobby can be an escape point to lie to yourself, but you can really take it as a hobby, there is no problem.

We can consider an activity that a person expresses pleasure in doing which is called Hobby. Gambling is no different. But many may present it differently when it comes to gambling. Because addiction to gambling can make a gambler miserable through which he can suffer financially. There are some gamblers who take up gambling as a hobby and turn it into an addiction. Gambling addiction can cripple a gambler both emotionally and financially. It can also create a big obstacle from the social side. A gambler can express his desire as a hobby if he can manage gambling by keeping it under control. While we can consider hobby for any good action but we can never consider as hobby any action that has bad or negative effects. And in this case we can consider as addicted.

Gambling can be a hobby as long as you do it for fun or as long as you have money management but I know a lot of stories where these boundaries have been broken by the bettor and most of the time it ends with tragic stories. However, there is a certain amount of gamblers who are out there gambling for fun and simply as a hobby and usually you don't see them having any restrain talking about their gambling habit because it's under control and they know it. ( they also have a lot of money to gamble ...but this is another story  ).

You are right...! Online games are also highly addictive. First you start with hobby but eventually it turns into addiction. I myself was once for several years addicted to COC.
But I think the addict depends entirely on himself when you're mature enough in terms of age. The ability to judge good and evil governs your own affairs. If you have the knowledge to make the right decision.

This is just a matter of perception and habits in running things in this world, gambling is an object just like the other fields you said such as soccer, watching, reading, writing, drawing playing games is just an object and you can freely do it and consider it for your own interests whether it is made as a job or hobby or whatever it is.

Yes, someone to find entertainment in gambling, of course, he makes gambling a place as a hobby, and makes it a place to make money, meaning that you force gambling as a place for you to work, just like playing soccer, writing, reading, playing games, many people make it a job, this is quite possible to do also in gambling, even though we consider it wrong if gambling is considered a job but it is quite possible for someone to do it, and that's where the logic lies to conclude the opinion that gambling is a hobby or not in someone's life.

The issue of whether or not it is addictive is relative, just like the other fields we mentioned, we can get addicted to that field.

Yes, gambling as a side hustle doesn't sit right as a thought. No gambler has ever made it quite big in this hustle. The house isn't employing their player, except for those who work part-time with the casino. However, while gambling it's crucial for a gambler to devise a plan. Players with no target or plan of what they're doing in a casino, face many troubles. And they'll have a hard time accepting gambling to be a hobby. Instead, they want quick funds, thereby thinking of gambling as a side hustle. Although, gambling is good as a hobby. Especially when the gambler is interested in the games and doesn't focus so much on profits.

A lot can be learned from gambling. Some players don't care about the other technical aspects of gambling, where they'll help build their mental health. Gambling as a hustle diminishes the mental health of the gambler, into thinking he deserves to win the money he's lost. Playing as a hobby gives the gambler some form of confidence that he won't fall into trouble. That's what mainly matters in gambling as a hobby. But when the gambler isn't enjoying it anymore, I don't think this will be tagged a hobby, again.

When I was kid in 90s I remember our hobbies are collecting coins and stamps of different countries. Such hobbies can be considered as healthy ones compared to today's hobbies like playing pubg all day. I don't think the hobbies which I mentioned of 90's can have any sort of negative impact. But it's also true that in today's digital world, if you are getting addicted to things which you have mentioned then you are in real trouble. 

Indeed, there are many different motives and reasons for people to respond to gambling, but what is wrong in my opinion is that they make gambling a clear means of making money, whereas winning at gambling is difficult to win, and I think that if they make gambling a hobby they must be prepared for it. Losing money is bound to happen. because gambling will only drain our finances. Apart from that, what is called a hobby is something that is done because it has become a habit, but if you are used to gambling, in my opinion it will make those who make gambling a hobby become addicted to gambling.

It doesn't matter as long as they have stable finances or good self-control, and accept the obvious fact of losing money that will definitely happen, but if they are not ready to lose money then I hope they don't get stressed because they don't want the money they bet on to be lost. .
In fact, in my opinion, it is better not to make gambling a hobby, because in my opinion, what is called a hobby definitely costs money, but at least there are visible results that we can feel, but with gambling it will only make us lose money while we won't get anything. except perhaps just sensation.

This is particularly true as everyone has got their own idea as to what they think about gambling, they either see it as a side hustle, a main hustle or hobby, some even see it as a means for entertainment as they don't want to gamble to make money alone so they make it their hobby or side hustle. Some other persons has got another reason or view of gambling and that's fine but i think  every other view of it sounds very healthy except for eh aspect of seeing it as a main hustle which will most definitely cause the gambler some kind of unhealthy indulgence because gambling can at a point become addictive and the gambler gets in to problem resulting from their unhealthy gambling habit.

Gambling should always be don cautiously as there are so many aspect and effects that comes with it that one may not know until they are involved and then they get caught up in all of it. Always gamble responsibly and for solely entertainment purposes.

If the question is what you said, then I also agree that gambling can be a hobby. But to used gambling as a hobby is not easy because you must allocates some money continously as playing gambling as a hobby is different than playing gambling as a fun. As a hobby, you used gambling more often than the other people do while if you used gambling as a fun, you only used gambling for have fun and don't have any intention to wins the games and only playing gambling in your spare time.

That's why we can only used gambling as a fun things to avoids any bad things that can happens while we playing gambling. We don't needs to use more money to playing gambling because we knows that can makes us lose much money. We must prevent the big lose that can happens and only using enough money to playing gambling. Maybe some people can use big money to gambling because they have a big money in their pocket but we as a small gambler doesn't needs to follows them.

"Is Gambling A Hobby?" is the wrong question, the question should be "Can Gambling Be A Hobby?" and the answer is yes, it surely can. A hobby is something that you do often as you like doing it, and it can be anything. A hobby can be a sport, reading, writing, watching TV, playing video games, or anything in general including gambling because you do it either everyday or very often and you like doing that thing.

If you are gambling for fun, you have gambling as a hobby, and if you gamble because you are addicted to it or you do it to earn money from it, then maybe it isn't a hobby but it's something you are forcing yourself to do not because you like doing it but because you want to get something out of it.

Many hobbies can lead you into addiction, hobbies such as online games such as mobile legend, pubg or whatever the name is.
Other hobbies such collecting stuffs or even shopping can also lead you into addiction, so why gambling can be considered as hobby because it may lead into addiction?
With the same standard, will you also say that playing online games cant be considered as hobby as well?
In my opinion, all hobbies can give you negative effects if you are out of control when doing the hobbies too much.
It depends on ourselves on how to deal with the hobby we like, the same applies to gambling, we can take it as a hobby as long as we know how to deal with it wisely.

those expensive hobbies will give you a profit sometimes, just like what collectors do, they will collect an items and they sell some of them in a higher bid amount so I disagree that hobby should not give you any profit. Gambling is considered as hobby even if sometimes it will leads you to addiction and other  things that may ruin your financial and mental health. we can't deny the fact  that most people consider it a hobby because what else can be called something that we always do and look forward to every time we have money, right?

Sorry but you are wrong, people to make money from their hobbbies, maybe you can show me a place where it is said or written that people arent supposed to make money from what ever they take as a hobby, then I possibly may have to reconsider my stand or opinion on this matter.

I've seen people who blog as a hobby, and are making money from it, I've seen people who trade as a hobby, and are making money from it, I've seen many who drive as a hobby, after their day job, they often would drive people around using platforms like Uber, bolt and so on, and they get paid for the service, people write as a hobby, and soon as they become really good, they are hired to write presentations and so on, and they get paid for it, let me even use your own example, people go fishing as a hobby, catch some really good fish and sell it and they make money.

It's exactly the same thing as gambling, there are those who gamble as a hobby, and making money from gambling does not take away the fact that gambling is just a hobby to them, there are times hobbies can even start paying a person far more than that persons job does, and the person will quit his or her to turn what was once a hobby into a real profession, example is bloggers, many big blogging site today started as a hobby for those who own them, and later on, they blog started brining in alot of money, then the owners quit their job to focus on blogging.

You can never take gambling as a hobby because hobbies are those things where no income comes into play. But people get addicted to gambling mainly for income. People can garden as a hobby, collect physical coins, some like to fish or some like to travel. But gambling people become addicted for pleasure but later it is not limited to pleasure but is considered as a significant means of income.
Again many use it as a means of passing time and that is fine but if one considers it as a hobby then I would say it is completely absurd.

Different gamblers are introduced to gambling in different ways. There are some gamblers who are inspired by their friends' gambling and inspired by their friends, they try gambling out of curiosity and when they understand gambling, they take this gambling seriously. On the other hand there are some gamblers who know about gambling by seeing various gambling ads on online platforms and usually gamble on online platforms. Gamblers always think about the positive aspects of gambling when they see gambling ads and they think that they will win by gambling because the advertisement sites only highlight the positive aspects of gambling. Considering only the positive aspects of gambling, gamblers will lose their money by gambling.