PRESIDENTIAL HOBBIES & RECREATION
| President | Activities |
| George Washington | Fox hunting, horseback riding, cards, walking |
| John Adams | Reading, writing, walking, fishing |
| Thomas Jefferson | Architecture, science, reading, writing, music, landscaping, inventor, horticulture, horseback riding |
| James Madison | Reading, languages, chess, walking, nature, horseback riding |
| James Monroe | Horseback riding, hunting |
| John Quincy Adams | Reading, writing, nature, billiards, swimming, theater |
| Andrew Jackson | Horses, hunting, cockfights |
| Martin Van Buren | Theater, gambling |
| William Henry Harrison | Horseback riding, walking, Bible |
| John Tyler | Music, hunting, pets |
| James K. Polk | Politics |
| Zachary Taylor | Chewing tobacco |
| Millard Fillmore | Reading, book collecting/libraries |
| Franklin Pierce | Fishing |
| James Buchanan | Reading, cards |
| Abraham Lincoln | Reading, theater, chess, jokes |
| Andrew Johnson | Checkers, gardening, minstrel shows |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Smoking, painting, horseback riding |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Hunting, fishing, walking, chess, landscaping, reading |
| James A. Garfield | Hunting, fishing, Bible |
| Chester A. Arthur | Walking, hosting parties, fishing |
| Grover Cleveland | Fishing, hunting, cards |
| Benjamin Harrison | Walking, hunting, Bible, cards |
| William McKinley | Theater, cards |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Hunting, reading, writing, nature, boxing, polo, horseback riding |
| William Howard Taft | Golf, baseball, theater |
| Woodrow Wilson | Reading, theater, golf, horseback riding, boating |
| Warren G. Harding | Cards, golf, baseball games, burlesque shows, fishing |
| Calvin Coolidge | Walking, horseback riding, fishing, jokes, pets |
| Herbert Hoover | Exercise, fishing |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Boating, cards, swimming, bird watching |
| Harry S. Truman | Walking, piano |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Cards, golf, painting, fishing, cooking |
| John F. Kennedy | Sailing/boating, golf, swimming, football, movies |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Dominos, cards, ranching, golf, swimming |
| Richard Nixon | Golf, bowling, swimming, cards, reading, writing |
| Gerald R. Ford | Swimming, golf, tennis, skiing, football |
| Jimmy Carter | Jogging, hiking, tennis, bowling, reading, music, movies, Bible |
| Ronald Reagan | Horseback riding, movies, exercise, ranching |
| George Bush | Boating, golf, tennis, jogging, hunting, fishing |
| Bill Clinton | Golf, swimming, basketball, trivial pursuit, cross-word puzzles, cards, reading, saxophone |
| George W. Bush | Jogging, ranching |
