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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 may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with professional players which have teams that regularly compete against those of other clubs and sometimes attract very large crowds of paying spectators. Clubs may be dedicated to a single sport or to several (multi-sport clubs).
The term "athletics club" is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's Turner movement, first realised at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin in 1811, was the origin of the modern sports clubs.[1]
- ^ Hofmann, Annette R.; Gems, Gerald, eds. (2023). Turnen Around the World. Lexington Books. p. 7. ISBN 9781666950496.