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

• Association football:
  • Cambridge University Association Football League
    • CUAFL Cuppers
    • CUAFL Plate
    • CUAFL Shield
    • CUAFL Vase
  • Cambridge University Association Football Club
  • Pegasus A.F.C., a now-defunct combined Oxford-Cambridge football team
• Cambridge University Cricket Club
• Rugby union:
  • Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club
  • The Varsity Match, the annual rugby union varsity match
• Cambridge University Automobile Club
• Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club
• Strange Blue, the Cambridge University Ultimate Club

Rowing

• Cambridge University Boat Club
• Cambridge University Combined Boat Club
• Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club
• Cambridge University Women's Boat Club
• The Boat Race
• Henley Boat Races

College boat clubs

• Caius Boat Club
• Christ's College Boat Club
• Churchill College Boat Club
• Clare Boat Club
• Corpus Christi College Boat Club
• Downing College Boat Club
• Emmanuel Boat Club
• Fitzwilliam College Boat Club
• Girton College Boat Club
• Homerton College Boat Club
• Hughes Hall College Boat Club
• Jesus College Boat Club
• King's College Boat Club
• Lady Margaret Boat Club (St John's College)
• Magdalene Boat Club
• New Hall Boat Club
• Newnham College Boat Club
• Pembroke College Boat Club
• Peterhouse Boat Club
• Queens' College Boat Club
• Robinson College Boat Club
• Selwyn College Boat Club
• Sidney Sussex College Boat Club
• St. Catharine's College Boat Club
• Trinity College:
  • First Trinity Boat Club
  • Second Trinity Boat Club
  • Third Trinity Boat Club
  • First and Third Trinity Boat Club
• Trinity Hall Boat Club

Bumps races

• Bumps race
• Lent Bumps: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• May Bumps: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Political societies

• Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats
• Cambridge Union Society, a debating society
• Cambridge University Conservative Association
• Cambridge University Labour Club
• Clare Politics, a political society based at Clare
• The Wilberforce Society, the student think-tank

Academic societies

• Cambridge University Scientific Society
• Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club
• Cambridge Philosophical Society
• Cambridge University Law Society
• Cambridge University SPS Society

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

Student Unions

• Cambridge University Students' Union, the Cambridge-wide federal union
• Graduate Union, the students' union specifically for Graduates
• Churchill JCR, undergraduate student union in Churchill

Miscellaneous societies

• 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
• Pitt Club, an exclusive social club
• TCS, a student newspaper
• Varsity, a student newspaper
• CICCU, the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
• Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society
• Churchill Regular Association for Poker

College clubs and societies

• Gonville & Caius A.F.C., the only college team to have reached the 1st round of the FA Cup
• Pembroke Players, an amateur dramatics society

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

External links

• University Of Cambridge Registered Clubs & Societies
• Societies hosted on the SRCF