- 1〔楽しみ〕a hobby(▼比較的静かな活動);〔気晴らし〕a pastime, a diversion
- 道楽はばら作りです
- My hobby is growing roses.
- ほんの道楽で油絵をやっています
- I paint oil pictures only as a hobby [pastime/diversion].
- この仕事は道楽でやっています
- I do this work because I love it, not for money.
- 2〔放蕩ほうとう〕dissipation
道楽する lead a dissipated [fast and loose] life; take [be given] to dissipation
- 彼は若いころに道楽をした
- He sowed some wild oats in his youth.
- 道楽息子a profligate son
- 道楽者a libertine [líbərtìːn]; a fast liver