What begins as a solitary pursuit can develop to the stage where you are the local expert.
Other than that, I'm rather given to solitary pursuits.
Writers are engaged in a solitary pursuit, and the company of others can be a mixed blessing.
There are men who walk at night, shoulders hunched, heads bent in some solitary pursuit.
Turner has maintained his solitary pursuits for more than 20 years.
That might help explain why so many more people are participating in the solitary pursuit of road racing.
This is not one of his solitary pursuits, however.
He found the constant contact with people invigorating after the solitary pursuit of painting.
Prior to the 1870s, gold mining was often a solitary and small-scale pursuit.
So that, in the beginning, writing, like reading, was less a solitary pursuit than an attempt to connect with others.