List of social activities at the University of Cambridge

This is intended to be a complete list of articles detailing clubs, societies and other common leisure activities associated with the University of Cambridge, England.

Sports

General
  • Varsity match, the annual match for each sports team against the University of Oxford
  • Cambridge Blue, an award for competing at the highest level of University sport
  • The Hawks' Club, a social club for men with a Blue, Half Blue or Second Team Colours

Clubs

Rowing

College boat clubs

Bumps races

Political societies

Academic societies

Drama societies
  • Amateur Dramatic Club
  • Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society
  • Footlights, an amateur dramatics and comedy club
  • Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society
  • Improvised Comedy Ents (ICE), the University's oldest improv society
  • Alcock Improv, another improv society
  • The Corpus Christi Fletcher Players
  • The Movement, now a professional theatre company but still using actors from the University.
  • Christ's Amateur Dramatic Society
  • Girton Amateur Dramatics Society (GADS)

Student Unions

Miscellaneous societies
  • Cambridge University Wine society, the university wine society
  • Cambridge Apostles, an elite intellectual secret society
  • Cambridge Explorers, secret social and adventuring club
  • Cambridge University Punting Society, the oldest and largest extant punting society in the world.
  • Cambridge SCA, a charity and volunteering organisation
  • Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, the world's oldest tiddlywinks club
  • Choir of King's College, Cambridge, a world-renowned choir
  • CUR1350, the student radio station
  • Cambridge University Wireless Society, the university amateur radio club
  • Granta, periodical which started as a student society
  • Hawks' Club, a member's club for university sportsmen
  • University Pitt Club, an exclusive social club
  • TCS, a student newspaper
  • Varsity, a student newspaper
  • CICCU, the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
  • Cambridge University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS), known as one of the likely creators of The Game
    • Jómsborg the New - the Fantasy Fiction Society, and subset of CUSFS

College clubs and societies

Leisure activities
  • Formal Hall, a formal dinner in a college
  • June Event, an alternative to May Balls
  • May Balls, a college ball, usually held annually in May Week
  • May Week, the week after the end of examinations, actually in June
  • Punting
  • Suicide Sunday, the Sunday during May Week

References
  1. Strange Blue, the Cambridge University Ultimate Club
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