"And I haven't even shown you the best way to fight boredom on our little island."

For most of his life he had been fighting ennui, a deep and abiding boredom with the way the world was.

While they wait, he added, they could fight boredom by watching audiovisual screens.

How do you fight boredom in a place where there isn't a whole lot to do?

Later, Trizsa and the women did a fashion show to fight boredom.

Curiosity was fighting boredom in my case, and rapidly losing.

But she learns that keeping busy is the way to fight boredom.

To fight boredom, to keep them listening, teachers present many lessons - from anatomy in health to poetics - as games.

The primary problems aboard, after that lifetime year of training, would be fighting boredom and keeping in reasonable physical shape.

As a way to fight boredom they sometimes trade jobs with other workers.