In theAnimal Crossing series,hobbies are pastimes that thevillagers in theplayer'stown may take up to occupy their time. Hobbies include various activities the player may partake in, such as walking around, collecting fossils, or gardening, as well as activities the player cannot do in-game, like reading and singing.

InAnimal Crossing: Wild World andAnimal Crossing: City Folk, a villager may change their hobby several times, while inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, a villager always has one hobby that doesn't change.

Appearances[edit]

InWild World andCity Folk[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: Wild World andAnimal Crossing: City Folk, eight hobbies can be observed. Hobbies are the same betweenWild World andCity Folk, with small variations in activities between installments. Sometimes, villagers will play games based on their hobby—for example,lazy villagers may ask players to guess what their current hobby is. Hobbies affect villagers in many ways—their conversations vary, the content of their homes change, and what tool they carry may differ as well. Over time, a villager's hobby will change. Villagers may have up to two hobbies at a time; however, once they move in, the second hobby is always walking.

Wild World starting hobby
Personality	Catch bugs	Collect furniture	Collect shells	Dig up fossils	Fish	Garden	Shop for clothes	Walk around
Lazy	6	1	3	2	5	2	0	6
Jock	4	1	5	4	4	2	3	2
Cranky	2	1	1	8	5	0	1	7
Normal	2	5	4	1	1	9	3	0
Peppy	3	5	1	1	4	2	5	4
Snooty	2	6	4	2	0	4	7	0
Total	19	19	18	18	19	19	19	19

Catch bugs[edit]

Villagers with the "catch bugs" hobby will carry anet while they are outside. They will collectbugs for display in their homes. InWild World, residents have competitions with the player to find a certain insect as fast as they can, or to catch the rarest bug. InCity Folk, villagers simply ask for a specific insect, often in exchange for a reward.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Collect furniture[edit]

Villagers with the "collect furniture" hobby will often ask the player for a piece of furniture of a specific color, style (old-school, chic, etc.), or set to display in their home. Because of how specific the requests are, they may reject the player's offerings—this is especially so with colors, as the whole item must be that color, not just a part of it. However, even if the furniture is rejected by the villager, they may not give it back to the player, opting to keep it without displaying it.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Collect shells[edit]

Villagers with the "collect shells" hobby will talk aboutseashells, but do not ask the player to find any for them. However, they do ask the player to complete deliveries and generally stay in the lower acres of town near the beach.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Dig up fossils[edit]

Villagers with the "dig up fossils" hobby will carry ashovel while they are outside. They enjoy collectingfossils and will sometimes ask the player to find a fossil for them (a specific type or any). These will usually be placed inside the villager's homes. They will sometimes comment on the fossil exhibit at themuseum or how much they enjoyBlathers's lectures about fossils.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Fish[edit]

Villagers with the "fish" hobby will carry afishing rod while they are outside. They will collectfish for display in their homes. InWild World, villagers often treat their hobby as more of a competition to see who can catch a fish the fastest. They may challenge the player to find a specific fish, the rarest fish, or even the biggest fish, and will always take the fish in exchange for a present if they lose this "competition." InCity Folk, villagers request a certain fish from the player in return for a reward.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Garden[edit]

Bella displaying her gardening hobby by holding a watering can and surrounding her house with flowers.

Villagers with the "garden" hobby will carry awatering can while they are outside. They enjoy plantingflowers, and flowers will appear around their house each day; eventually, up to two rows of flowers will appear in front of their house, excluding the single space in front of their door, and up to one row of flowers will appear on either side of their house. Villagers with this hobby often comment on how other villagers have been running through their gardens. If talked to, they may ask the player to deliver aletter orpresent for them.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Shop for clothes[edit]

Villagers with the "shop for clothes" hobby will ask for newclothes, sometimes specific styles, in exchange for gifts. Clothing may be rejected if the villager deems it too unattractive. Lazy villagers might say that they are becoming a super hero, named "Super Spiffy [Villager Name]," and that they may ask players for style tips later on, since they will be their sidekick. They also say that they will stop wearing only the clothes their mom sends them. When players give a villager new clothes, the clothes they are wearing are displayed in their house.

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

Walk around[edit]

The "walk around" hobby is the automatic second hobby of all villagers. Villagers with this hobby will talk of their favorite routes, what they notice on their walk, and how refreshing they find it. They sometimes ask players if they want to walk with them, or to complete a delivery.

Normal villagers may mention flowers blooming on their route that weren't there yesterday.Cranky villagers will usually say, "You may think I'm a tired old man for saying this, but I like walking slow. Everyone these days have caught up with speed walking, but who needs speed? Wander around on a day like this and see what you discover."Peppy villagers will usually comment on how they're walking off a big meal or dessert, or how they intend to stay fit by walking around the town. InCity Folk, specifically, they may comment: "Since I'm becoming a healthier person now, I want to walk all the way to the city instead of taking the bus, but I don't think ANYONE could do that, not even, like, a marathon runner!"

Villagers who start with this hobby inWild World[edit]

InNew Horizons[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, six hobbies can be observed, with each allowing the villager to perform unique actions, or certain actions at any time that other villagers can only perform during a scripted activity outsideResident Services that involves several villagers. Villagers may also be seen reading books or magazines pertaining to their hobby.

Special characters also have hobbies, although it is not expressed to the same extent as villagers. Exclusive toHappy Home Paradise, their hobby affects the books or magazines that they read; it has no other effect.

Personality	Education	Fashion	Fitness	Music	Nature	Play
Lazy	1	1	4	0	23	34
Jock	1	0	37	3	1	15
Cranky	20	0	10	14	11	2
Smug	11	0	4	15	6	1
Normal	23	4	0	11	24	1
Peppy	1	31	3	6	2	10
Snooty	11	32	3	8	3	0
Big sister	1	0	6	12	0	7
Total villagers	69	68	67	69	70	70
Special characters	11	11	9	12	10	12
Total	80	79	76	81	80	82

Education[edit]

Gala displaying her education hobby by examining somecosmos with a magnifying glass.

Beardo reading a novel while wearingrimmed glasses. Education-hobby villagers are able to read their novel while either indoors or outdoors.

Villagers with the education hobby can wearrimmed glasses and read a novel while outside. They will also use a magnifying glass when near certainfurniture items, such asart,fossils,flowers placed outside as furniture,insects placed outside as furniture, andfish placed outside as furniture; and near certain plants, such asflowers,trees,weeds, andproduce. They also use the magnifying glass with insects that are flying around. This hobby is most common amongnormal andcranky villagers. Additionally,Cobb is the onlyjock villager,Shino is the onlypeppy villager,Doc is the onlylazy villager, andQuinn is the onlybig sister villager with this hobby.

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Special characters with this hobby[edit]

Fashion[edit]

Portia wearinground tinted shades and carrying a pink purse, demonstrating her fashion sense.

Francine reading a fashion magazine while indoors.

Villagers with the fashion hobby can wear specificheadwear oraccessory items while carrying a special type of bag; for female villagers, they carry a pink purse with a white flower on it, and for male villagers, they carry a brown leather bag. Most of the villagers with fashion as their hobby are female, and nearly all of them are eitherpeppy orsnooty.Eunice,Ione,Jambette, andVesta are the onlynormal villagers with this hobby;Sasha, who islazy, is the only male villager with this hobby. Nobig sister villagers have fashion as their hobby.

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Fitness[edit]

Audie displaying her fitness hobby by lifting a heavy dumbbell while wearingsporty shades.

Audie reading a sports magazine while indoors.

Villagers with the fitness hobby will wearsporty shades and lift heavydumbbells while exercising. Other villagers can only lift heavier dumbbells when exercising at theResident Servicesplaza during a scripted activity with a group of villagers; at any other time, they lift lighter dumbbells. Mostjocks have this hobby. All of thegorilla villagers have this hobby, except forRilla, who was added in theversion 1.9.0 update with the nature hobby. All of the superhero villagers have this as their hobby except forBig Top, who has the play hobby instead. Nonormal villagers have this as their hobby.

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Music[edit]

Flo displaying her music hobby by singing.

Katt reading a music magazine while indoors.

Villagers with the music hobby can sing or dance anywhere without the need of astereo. Other villagers can only sing or dance if they interact with a stereo, or during a scripted activity at the Resident Services plaza. Manybig sister villagers have this hobby, while nolazy villagers have this as their hobby.Flip,Rory, andSprocket are the onlyjock villagers with this hobby.

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Nature[edit]

Stella displaying her nature hobby by examining somelilies with the help of a gardening guidebook.

Sherb reading a bug guidebook. Although nature-hobby villagers can utilize either a gardening guidebook, bug guidebook, fish guidebook, or fossil guidebook while they are outside, they will only ever read the bug guidebook while indoors.

Villagers with the nature hobby can read specific books that pertain to the item they are looking at. Unlike the education hobby, they don’t use novels, magnifying glass and rimmed glasses. They use a gardening guidebook when examining flowers or weeds, a bug guidebook when examining trees or bugs placed outside as furniture, a fish guidebook when examining fish placed outside as furniture, and a fossil guidebook when examining fossils placed outside as furniture. They can walk around holding awatering can in order to water multiple flowers; other villagers can only water one flower at a time. Manynormal andlazy villagers have this hobby. Prior toAce's inclusion in version 2.0, nojock villagers had this hobby. Nobig sister villagers have this as their hobby.

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Play[edit]

Reneigh displaying her play hobby by running around with her arms extended.

Big Top reading a comic book while indoors.

Villagers with the play hobby can run around with their arms extended at any time, rather than only at the Resident Services plaza during a scripted activity with a group of villagers. Manylazy villagers have this hobby, while nosnooty villagers do.Octavian andVladimir are the onlycranky villagers with the play hobby. Prior toChelsea's inclusion in version 1.9.0, nonormal villagers had this hobby, and prior toCephalobot's inclusion in version 2.0, nosmug villagers had this hobby.

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