Quote Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck View Post
Мои увлечения — это велоспорт,
I just wanted to say that you could also use a verb:
Я увлекаюсь велоспортом, плаванием и игрой на гитаре. И, конечно, изучением русского языка!


but some, to some extent, "simple" people might not understand its meaning then, and there's a brilliant joke about that.
Even if there were such people, I'm sure that the main target of this joke was the word "хобби" itself. It does sound ... strange ("мои хобби", urgh.)