# 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 Hawk' 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 Clubs
* Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club
* Cambridge University Women's Boat Club
* The Boat Race
* Women's 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 Boat Club
* Jesus College Boat Club
* King's College Boat Club
* Lady Margaret Boat Club (St John's College)
* Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club
* Magdalene Boat Club
* Murray Edwards College Boat Club (previously 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

* Lent Bumps
* May Bumps

## Political societies

* Cambridge University Liberal Association
* Cambridge Union Society, commonly known as the Cambridge Union - a debating union
* Cambridge University Conservative Association
* Cambridge University Labour Club
* The Wilberforce Society, the student think-tank

## Academic societies

* The Archimedeans
* Trinity Mathematical Society
* 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
* Girton Amateur Dramatics Society (GADS)

## Student Unions

* Cambridge University Students' Union, the Cambridge-wide federal union
* Graduate Union, the students' union specifically for Graduates

## Musical societies

* Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS), a federation of the university's main orchestral and choral ensembles, which cumulatively put on a substantial concert season during the university term.
* Cambridge University Jazz Society
* Cambridge University Hip Hop Society
* Cambridge University Ceilidh Band (CUCB)
* Cambridge University Brass Band (CUBB)
* Cambridge University Opera Society (CUOS)
* Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra (CUJO)
* Cambridge Gamelan Society
* Cambridge University Steel Pan Society

## College Music societies

* Emmanuel College Music Society (ECMS)
* Selwyn College Music Society (SCMS)
* Homerton College Music Society (HCMS)
* Trinity College Music Society (TCMS)
* Clare College Music Society (CCMS)
* Fitzwilliam College Music Society (FCMS)
* St John's College Music Society (SJCMS)
* MagSoc

## Choirs

* Choir of King's College, Cambridge, a world-renowned choir known for broadcast services, specifically Carols from King's.
* Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned choral society.
* Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, directed by David Skinner, (musicologist) and, uniquely among the collegiate choirs of Oxford and Cambridge, it sings an entirely Latin Vespers weekly.
* Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross, (musician) and funded by John Rutter.
* Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
* Christ's College Chapel Choir, Cambridge
* King's Voices, a mixed voice chapel choir based in King's College, Cambridge
* Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, a renowned choir that recently, 2022, allowed women and girls to participate.
* Queens' College Chapel Choir, Cambridge

## Miscellaneous societies

* Cam FM, the student radio station
* Cambridge Apostles, an elite intellectual secret society
* Cambridge Explorers, secret social and adventuring club
* Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, a student Christian organisation
* Granta, periodical which started as a student society
* Hawks' Club, a member's club for university sportsmen
* Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society, a society dedicated to the study of heraldry and genealogy
* University Pitt Club, an exclusive social club
* Per Capita Media, Cambridge University's newest student publication and magazine.
* Cambridge University Punting Society, the oldest and largest extant punting society in the world.
* Cambridge University Railway Club, railway and transport enthusiast society.
* 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
* The Cambridge Student, a student newspaper
* Cambridge Student Community Action, a charity and volunteering organisation
* Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, the world's oldest tiddlywinks club
* Varsity, a student newspaper
* Cambridge University Wine society, the university wine society
* Cambridge University Wireless Society, the university amateur radio club

## 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
* Go and Yes Minister Society (found in Girton College)
* Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society
* Churchill Regular Association for Poker

## 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