The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart demonstrates the leisure activities that the old choose over a period of 30 years. It is remarkable that the

percentage

change in hiking surged dramatically from the 1980s to the 2010s without any drop.

Overall

, the

percentage

changes between reading and seeing theatres,

as well as

in browsing the Internet compared to reading indicated

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. In the 1980s, the proportion of watching TV was the highest at 60%,

while

the relevant figure for surfing the Internet was 6%. Until the 2000s, the trends of both experienced steady increases,

whereas

from the 2000s to the 2010s, the cents of Surfing the Internet climbed by 50%, and that of watching TV

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down slightly. The

percentage

changes of hiking surged four times during 30 years, from 20% in the 1980s to 80% in the 2010s. From

the1980s

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the 1980s

to the 2000s, the

percentage

trends of theatre and reading fluctuated; when the ratio of theatre was up, the rate of reading went down. Before the 2000s, the figures

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both even lined with the same two times, nearly 35%. After increasing, the figures for theatre and reading were at 45% and 60% separately in the 2010s.