Hobbies that need a room of their own.
A spare room, a garage, a shed or a yard. These do not pack away after each session. Sorted by what it costs to start.
Bowling
Tenpin bowling: rolling a ball down a 60-foot lane to knock down ten pins, played at a bowling center on your own, with friends or in a league.
Table tennis
A fast racket sport on a table with a low net, easy to start at a club drop-in and played for a lifetime.
Game call making
Turn a wooden barrel around a tuned insert and you have a working duck call.
Yoga
Yoga as exercise: postures (asanas), often linked in flowing sequences such as the Sun Salutation, learned in a beginner class and practised on a mat.
Top-rope climbing
Roped climbing on gym walls with the rope running through an anchor at the top and down to a partner who belays, the way most beginners start climbing with a rope.
Swimming
Learning to swim as an adult in a group course at a public pool, from floating to front crawl and backstroke, then lap swimming for fitness.
Judo
The Olympic martial art of throws, holds and submissions, founded in Tokyo in 1882, learned in a club on tatami mats starting with how to fall safely.
Badminton
A fast indoor racket sport played with a shuttlecock over a high net, easy to start at a recreation-centre drop-in.
Fencing
Olympic fencing with one of three weapons, foil, epee or sabre, learned in a club beginner course with borrowed kit before you buy your own.
Pottery (wheel throwing)
Throw mugs, bowls and cylinders on a potter's wheel, starting with a weekly studio course that supplies the wheel, the clay and the firing.
Backyard chickens
Three hens, a small coop and breakfast that walks up to greet you.
Reef aquarium
A living coral reef in the living room. Expensive, demanding and hypnotic.