Crossword clues for spa
spa
- It may have many jets
- Thermal ___
- Apt rhyme of "aah"
- Aromatherapy spot
- Resort with hot springs
- See 62-Across
- Getaway destination
- Place with thermal waters
- Place for a "me day"
- Wellness retreat
- There's the rub!
- Where you might wear only a towel
- Place with complimentary bathrobes
- ___ treatment
- Place that might offer mud baths
- Where one might get a facial
- Body treatment facility
- Resort with mineral waters
- Place to be pampered
- Place with robes
- Mother's Day destination, maybe
- Chichi getaway
- Place for a mani-pedi
- Hot springs resort
- Where one might hear oohs and aahs
- Place to get a wrap
- Masseuse's workplace
- Luxury resort amenity
- Spring business?
- Unwinding spot
- Eponymous Belgian tourist locale
- Hot spot?
- Where people are always getting into hot water?
- Where you might get rubbed the right way
- Mani-pedi spot
- Beautician employer
- Place with expensive mud
- Where to get a mud wrap
- Place to work up a sweat
- Place for a bachelorette party
- Luxe spot
- Hot spring
- Health resort amenity
- Place to go for a "me day"
- Relaxing getaway
- Luxury hotel perk
- Word derived from the name of a Belgian town
- Balneotherapy site
- Place to wear a wrap
- Place known for pampering
- Where you might hear 44-Across
- Massage place
- Mani-pedi place
- A health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- A fashionable hotel
- Vichy or
- Town near Li
- Baden-Baden or
- Bath or
- Belgian resort
- Bath is one
- Its spring gives zing
- Recreation location
- Where to "take the waters"
- French Lick is one
- Aqueous animator
- Watering place
- Town having allegiance to Liège
- Any fashionable resort
- French Lick, for one
- Evian is one
- Place for rest and restoration
- Evian or Vichy
- Bath installation
- Losing ground?
- Evian, e.g.
- Watering spot
- Evian or Menton
- Salubrious spot
- New England soda fountain
- Troon, e.g.
- Yankee soda fountain
- Saratoga, e.g.
- Resort near Liège
- Spring resort
- Tunbridge Wells is one
- Resort hotel
- Place for fitness buffs
- Antibes, for one
- Baden or Aix
- Resort SE of Liège
- Vichy, e.g.
- Place to slow one's pace
- Bex or Dax
- Bath, e.g.
- Vichy is one
- Saratoga is one
- Bath, England, e.g.
- Baden-Baden is one
- Sort of resort
- Spring that may bring some zing
- Evian, for one
- Ballston ___, N.Y.
- Palm Springs, e.g.
- Ems or Baden-Baden
- Liège resort
- Gastein, e.g.
- Saratoga, for one
- Aptly named Belgian town
- Bad Ems or Bex
- Jacuzzi spot
- Health farm
- Dax, for one
- Bath or Baden
- Tunbridge Wells, e.g.
- Curative waters
- Escape from the rat race
- Sauna locale
- Toning-up spot
- Bath bath
- Rest-cure facility
- Fat farm, e.g.
- Menton is one
- Marienbad is one
- White Sulphur Springs, e.g.
- Bad Nauheim is one
- Bath or Bad Ems
- Evian-les-Bains, e.g.
- Watering place in Belgium
- Warm Springs, for one
- Resort town of Belgium
- Bad Ems is one
- Karlsbad is one
- Eureka Springs, e.g.
- Belgian town
- Belgian town near Liège
- Aix-les-Bains is one
- St.-Tropez is one
- Belgian city
- Place featuring baths
- Health spot
- Place to get fit
- Colorado Springs, e.g.
- Warm Springs, e.g.
- Where to shed care
- Location for rejuvenation
- Health mecca
- Type of resort
- Site of salutary springs
- Bath or Baden-Baden
- Marienbad, e.g.
- Resort like Bex
- Hot Springs, Ark., e.g.
- Place for complimentary bathrobes
- Évian, for one
- Dax or Ems
- Bad Soden is one
- Hot Springs or Saratoga
- Health place
- Bad Godesberg, e.g.
- Kind of spring
- Baths of a sort
- Bar, to an imbiber
- N.E. soda fountain
- Mineral-water mecca
- Evian-les-Bains is one
- Baden twice
- Menton or Vichy
- Spring bringing zing
- Where a spring gives zing
- Nautilus habitat
- Baden-Baden, e.g.
- Vacation destination
- Health resort
- Healing waters
- Bath, for one
- Vacation spot
- Where to warm one's bones
- Workout site
- Aix-les-Bains, e.g.
- Tone-up center
- Karlovy Vary is one
- Site of rejuvenation
- Spot for three men in a tub
- Wiesbaden, for example
- Nautilus locale
- Hydromassage facility
- Health club
- Baths
- Where fat cats get thin
- Belgian resort town
- Hot-tub locale
- Whirlpool
- Loser's place?
- Pampering place
- Whirlpool whereabouts
- Recuperative spot
- Fat farm
- Jacuzzi
- Resort in the Ardennes
- Bath or Г‰vian
- Eponymous Belgian town
- Place for hydrotherapy
- Trainer's workplace, perhaps
- Where some losers hang out
- Masseuse employer
- Resort
- Place for sweaters
- Health center
- Health facility
- Jacuzzi site
- Place for a masseuse
- Mineral springs
- Site of many losses
- Bathing facility
- Place for a little R and R
- Marienbad, for one
- It might afford a remedy
- Health restorer
- England's Harrogate, e.g.
- It has springs
- Place to unwind
- ___ City (Saratoga Springs nickname)
- Salutary site
- Workout locale
- Site for three men in a tub?
- Ice cream shop, in New England
- Mineral spring
- Bad Ems, e.g.
- Saratoga Springs, e.g.
- Hot springs
- Workout facility
- Health haven
- Place to relax
- Bathroom installation
- Tub with a whirlpool
- Fashionable resort
- It might make you sweat
- Baden-Baden, for one
- Sauna site
- Recovery place
- Place to recuperate
- Takeoff place?
- Where to do some bodywork?
- Vichy or Г‰vian
- Place for a mud bath
- Spring
- Travel Channel stopover
- Where one might take off on a vacation?
- Vacation locale
- Hot resort?
- Town near LiГЁge
- Place to share a tub
- Place to take a cure
- Masseur's workplace, maybe
- Steamy place
- Where to sweat it out?
- Hot spot
- Splashy resort
- Place in which to luxuriate
- Pool locale
- Spring locale
- Baden-Baden or Г‰vian
- Place for a massage
- Retreat
- Waxing offerer
- Rest area?
- Site of mineral waters
- Venue of indulgence
- Hydrotherapy venue
- Relaxing resort
- Where you might get into hot water?
- Spring for refreshments
- Where one might get into hot water
- Resting place
- Watering hole
- Rest and relaxation site
- Resort of a sort
- Curative locale
- Massage locale
- Mud bath spot
- Vacation location
- Place to sweat
- Fancy home amenity
- Luxury hotel facility
- Place where you can get into hot water
- Pool site
- Rest cure destination
- Place to find sweaters
- Getaway
- Mudbath locale
- Where to get soaked?
- Hot springs locale
- Place for sweaters?
- Healthful retreat
- Day ___
- Restful place
- Where to find sweaters
- It might let off some steam
- Hot Springs, e.g.
- Place for R&R
- Hydrotherapy locale
- Rejuvenation location
- Where one might get steamed
- Hydrotherapy provider
- Hot tub
- Health ___
- Rest spot
- Where to get rubbed the right way?
- Four-star hotel amenity
- Masseur's workplace
- Place to refresh oneself
- Relaxing place
- Where you may get steamed
- Masseur's place
- Place to get a 47-Across
- Hot springs site
- Place for jets
- Place to get a mud bath
- Hydrotherapy spot
- Where the robed are rubbed
- Place that might feature a sauna
- Upscale hotel offering
- Mineral ___
- "Star Wars" and "Battlestar Galactica"
- Place to get a facial
- Where folks get into hot water
- Masseur employer
- Place to get a mudbath or massage
- Facial site
- Balneotherapy locale
- Kind of treatment
- Hot tub locale
- Elite retreat
- Steamboat Springs, Colo., for one
- Reflexologist's place
- Fitness facility
- Spring for a vacation
- It's good for what ails you
- Place with complimentary towels
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spa \Spa\ (?; 277), n. A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"medicinal or mineral spring," 1620s, from the name of the health resort in eastern Belgium, known since 14c., that features mineral springs believed to have curative properties. The place name is from Walloon espa "spring, fountain." As "commercial establishment offering health and beauty treatments," 1960.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring. 2 A trendy or fashionable resort. 3 A health club. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context Ireland slang English) A clumsy person (see spastic) 2 (context Ireland slang English) An idiot 3 (context Ireland slang English) A gobshite
WordNet
n. a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole]
a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel]
a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, health club]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths. Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer various health treatments, which are also known as balneotherapy. The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been popular worldwide, but are especially widespread in Europe and Japan. Day spas are also quite popular, and offer various personal care treatments.
Spa is a brand of mineral water from Spa, Belgium, and is owned by the Spadel Group. Spa mineral water has been bottled since the end of the 16th century and is very common in Western Europe and especially in the Benelux countries and Germany but is also exported to other parts of the world. Spa Mineral Water is distributed in the UK by Aqua Amore Ltd. Spa mineral water comes from the grounds of the Hautes Fagnes, of which the upper layers exists from heath land and peat.
Spa mineral water is available in bottles of three litres, two litres, one and a half liter, one liter, 75 cl, 50 cl, 30 cl and 25 cl. It is also available in 33 cl cans. There are several types of Spa mineral water.
Spa, formerly Spa 73, is a new-age, ambient and instrumental music channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 68 (previously 73), XM Satellite Radio channel 68 (previously 72, where it replaced Audio Visions, which was XM 77) and on DISH Network channel 6068. Until February 9, 2010, it was on DirecTV channel 856.
During the 2011 Holiday Season (Tuesday 12/20/11 at 3am ET until Thursday 12/29/11 at 3am ET), Spa was replaced by Radio Hanukkah.
SPA is the debut album from SPA and was released in 1997. The album was recorded over a three-year period and is dedicated to the memory of American comedian Bill Hicks.
SPA are a British band comprising Simon Toulson-Clarke, Phill Brown and Alastair Gavin. Toulson-Clarke and Gavin had previously worked together on the Red Box album Motive.
SPA is an acronym of the names of its members - Simon, Phill and Alastair.
They released their self titled debut album, SPA, in 1997.
Usage examples of "spa".
He was something worse than an adventurer, and all the French at Spa disowned him.
It was unlocked from the other side and Kyle opened it to reveal Graham bound and gagged on the couchette opposite the door, and Hendrique standing over him holding a Franchi Spas shotgun inches from his chest.
Nearly everyone went, and those who stayed only did so because lodgings were not to be had at Spa.
Things like boom boxes with compact disks, panty hose, 323 Rita Clay Estrada microwaves, spas, and polyester.
Silver Gulch tonight, thanks to the Silver Springs Spa and Healing Center.
Of all the company at Spa, I was most pleased to see the Marquis Caraccioli, whom I had left in London.
His Court had given him leave of absence, and he was spending it at Spa.
The same day I called on Princess Lubomirska and Tomatis, begging them not to take it amiss if my visits were few and far between, as the lady they had seen at Spa was approaching her confinement, and demanded all my care.
I had known specimens at Spa, Genoa, London, and at Venice, but this Jewess was the worst I had ever met.
On the 6th September he wrote from Antwerp to one of his good friends, the Abbe Eusebio della Lena, telling him that at Spa an English woman who had a passion for speaking Latin wished to submit him to trials which he judged it unnecessary to state precisely.
I reply to the three dear letters which you wrote me from Spa: the first of the 6th August, from which I learned that your departure had been delayed for some days to wait for someone who was to arrive in that city.
Pietro Zaguri sent to me to ask if I knew where you were, because he had written two letters to Spa and had received no reply .
His pockets were empty, and seeing me he beckoned to me, and I followed him out of the Spa.
I had unfortunately met him at Spa, and told him I was was going to Portugal.
Klima and Kamila, as he prepares to drive to the spa to attend the medical meeting with Ruzena and play in the concert with Skreta that night.