Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a ''
Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
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Clubs (suit)
Clubs is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It corresponds to the suit of Acorns in a German deck .
Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover ...
, a suit of playing cards
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Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''
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Brands and enterprises
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Club (cigarette)
Kensitas Club (commonly shortened to Club), is a Scottish brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Gallaher Group, a subsidiary of Japan Tobacco. Before May 2017, Club cigarettes in UK came in a distinct blue packet with the ...
, a Scottish brand of cigarettes
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Club (German cigarette), a German brand of cigarettes
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Club Med
Club Med SAS, commonly known as Club Med and previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, is a French travel and tourism operator headquartered in Paris, specializing in all-inclusive holidays. Founded in 1950, the company has been primarily ow ...
, a holiday company
Food
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Club (soft drink)
Club is the brand name for a series of Irish carbonated soft drinks produced in Ireland by Britvic Ireland and previously by Cantrell & Cochrane (C&C). It is bottled by the Britvic plant in Dublin. The series includes Club Orange, Club Lemon, ...
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Club Crackers
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Club sandwich
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Club (biscuit), a brand of biscuits manufactured by Jacob's (Ireland) and McVitie's (UK)
Objects
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Club (weapon)
A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistoric times. There are several examples of blunt-force trauma cau ...
, a blunt-force weapon
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Golf club
A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf. Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most versatile class, are used for a variety ...
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Indian club
Indian clubs, which originated in the Indian subcontinent, are a type of exercise equipment used to present resistance in movement to develop strength and mobility. They consist of juggling club shaped wooden clubs of varying sizes and weights, ...
, an exercise device
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Juggling club
* Throwing club, an item of sport equipment used in the
club throw
* Throwing club, an alternative name for a
throwing stick
The throwing stick or throwing club is a wooden rod with either a pointed tip or a spearhead attached to one end, intended for use as a weapon. A throwing stick can be either straight or roughly boomerang-shaped, and is much shorter than the j ...
Organizations
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Club (organization)
A club is an voluntary association, association of people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities. There are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, po ...
, a type of association
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Book discussion club
A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book sales cl ...
, also called a book club or reading circle
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Book sales club
A book sales club is a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book discussion club, which can cause confusion.
How book sales clubs work
Each me ...
, a marketing mechanism
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Cabaret club
A hostess club is a type of night club found primarily in Japan. They employ primarily female staff and cater to men seeking drinks and attentive conversation. The modern host club is a similar type of establishment where primarily male staff att ...
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Gentlemen's club (traditional)
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Health club
A health club (also known as a fitness club, fitness center, health spa, and commonly referred to as a gym) is a place that houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise.
In recent years, the number of fitness and health se ...
or fitness club, similar to a gym
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Nightclub
A nightclub (music club, discothèque, disco club, or simply club) is an entertainment venue during nighttime comprising a dance floor, lightshow, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who plays recorded music.
Nightclubs gener ...
, a place of entertainment with music and dancing
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Social club
A social club may be a group of people or the place where they meet, generally formed around a common interest, occupation, or activity. Examples include: book discussion clubs, chess clubs, anime clubs, country clubs, charity work, crimin ...
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Sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
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Strip club
A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances. Strip clubs typically adopt a nightclub or bar style, and can also adopt a theatre or cabaret-style. Am ...
also known euphemistically as a "gentlemen's club", an adult entertainment venue with partially clothed or nude dancers
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Student club
A student society, student association, university society, student club, university club, or student organization is a society or an organization, operated by students at a university or a college institution, whose membership typically consists ...
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Women's club
The woman's club movement was a social movement that took place throughout the United States that established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform public policy. While women's organizations had always been a part ...
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Youth club
A youth center or youth centre, often called youth club, is a place where young people can meet and participate in a variety of activities, for example table football, association football (US soccer, UK football), basketball, table tennis, vi ...
Set theory
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Club set, a subset of a limit ordinal in set theory
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Clubsuit In mathematics, and particularly in axiomatic set theory, ♣''S'' (clubsuit) is a family of combinatorial principles that are a weaker version of the corresponding ◊''S''; it was introduced in 1975 by Adam Ostaszewski.
Definition
For a given ca ...
, a family of combinatorial principles in set theory
Other uses
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Club good, a type of artificially scarce good amenable to economic analysis
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Club (anatomy), a body part near the tail of some dinosaurs and mammals
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Club (sport), a team, a squad, a sport society that competes in sport competitions
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.club, a generic top level Internet domain
See also
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Club foot (disambiguation)
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Country club (disambiguation)
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The Club (disambiguation)
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