The act of someone who fishes as a diversion.

synonym: sportfishing.

Roget 361: killing etc. v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation^†, iccusion^†; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue^†.    massacre; fusillade, noyade^†; thuggery, Thuggism^†.    deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution etc. (capital punishment) 972; judicial murder; martyrdom.    butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur^†; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner etc. (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache^†, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.].    regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide^†, uxoricide^†, vaticide^†.    suicide, felo de se^†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath^†; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.    suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging etc. v.; lapidation^†.    deadly weapon etc. (arms) 727; Aceldama^†.    [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics^†; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.    fatal accident, violent death, casualty.    ... show more

Roget 622: pursuit; pursuing etc. v.; prosecution; pursuance; enterprise etc. (undertaking) 676; business etc. 625; adventure etc. (essay) 675; quest etc. (search) 461; scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt.    chase, hunt, battue^†, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar (Geog loc:India). pursuer; hunter, huntsman; shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod; hound etc. 366.    ... show more

Dutch: het vissen
Polish: łowienie, wędkowanie

The occupation of catching fish for a living.

Dutch: stek, visserij
Polish: rybołówstwo