Athletic Club

An athletic club may be

  • A private club which provides sports facilities to members.
  • A sports club dedicated to athletics, often professional and fielding competitive teams
  • A term for a general sports club, umbrella organization for multiple sports teams, e.g. Athletic Bilbao

Famous quotes containing the words athletic and/or club:

    “Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    “At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.”
    —“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870)