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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: anime clubs, book discussion clubs, charity work, chess clubs, country clubs, criminal headquarters (e.g., the Cage or the Ravenite Social Club), final club, fishing, gentlemen's clubs (known as private clubs in the US), hunting clubs, military officers' clubs, politics clubs, science clubs, university clubs). This article covers only three distinct types of social clubs: the historic gentlemen's clubs, the modern activities clubs, and an introduction to fraternities and sororities. This article does not cover a variety of other types of clubs having some social characteristics.
Usage examples of "social club".
A Phraetrie was everything from a social club and mutual-benefit association to a military unit, and the Spartan militia was organized around them.
Bad enough he creeped me out at the social club, now he was sending me flowers.
And that included the swimming pool, the tennis courts, the health club, the maintenance, the gardening, and the social club and bar.
None of these paid croupiers and groom-porters, which made the Great Go more like a hotel than a social club.
They all belong to a social club in Victoria, and have never been in trouble before.
Jones said that while searching a social club the previous night he had seen a man he definitely recognized as having been the transport officer at a base in Germany where his unit had refitted after a NATO exercise.