A
sports club or
sport club, sometimes
athletics club or
sports society or
sports association, is a
club for the purpose of playing one or more
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 which regularly compete against those of other clubs and attract sometimes very large crowds of paying
spectators. Clubs may be dedicated to a single sport or to several (multi-sport club).