Sport activities in USA
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Sports Center
At Chelsea Piers, this big indoor center has a running track, a swimming pool, workout equipment, basketball, boxing, kickboxing, volleyball, yoga and rock climbing, and sundecks with good views.
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North Meadow Recreation Center
Trade your ID for a sack full of fun games - baseballs, gloves, bats, Frisbees, basketballs, hula hoops and more. Staff at the NMRC happily lend out their field kits for a day free of charge, but call ahead during busy summer months.
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New Hampshire International Speedway
In mid-June, the raucous Motorcycle Week draws two-wheeled crowds to the New Hampshire International Speedway, south of Laconia. Races, shows and other spectacles create quite a scene. Bikers are everywhere.
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Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate
Besides bikes and skates (both quad-wheeled and inline), this little rental shop just outside the park rents disc putters and drivers for the nearby free Frisbee golf course. Call ahead to confirm it's open if the weather looks iffy.
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West Side YMCA
Near Central Park, the West Side Y – one of 20 YMCAs in the city – boasts two swimming pools, an indoor running track, a basketball court, six racquetball/squash courts and a big weight room. Membership is $93 monthly (with a $125 initiation fee).
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San Francisco Croquet Club
Croquet is not just for mad queens and chi-chi garden parties anymore. These folks are hardcore about their wickets, but nonmembers can join free sessions on the first three Saturdays of the month, and kids are always welcome.
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Aspen Recreation Center
- Aspen, USA
- Activities › Sports
Aspen is justifiably proud of its recreation center, which is loaded with facilities including pools and hot tubs, an ice rink and a climbing wall. Its Aspen Youth Center runs craft sessions, parties and other activities for kids aged eight to 18; summer fun includes roller hockey and skateboarding.
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San Francisco Disc Golf
If you love to throw Frisbees, head to the tranquil woods of Golden Gate Park to find a permanent 18-hole disc-golf course, enjoyed by cultish veterans and reckless beginners. You can rent a bag of flying saucers at Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate, and limber up for tournaments, which kick off Sundays from 8:30am to 10am.
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Riverbank State Park
This modern 28-acre, five-building facility, perched atop a waste refinery (not as crazy as it sounds), has an indoor Olympic-size pool, an outdoor lap pool, a fitness room, basketball and tennis courts, a running track around a soccer field, a kids’ area and a roller-skating rink (with ice skating from November to March).
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Pole Position Raceway
Dreamed up by Nascar and Supercross champs and modeled on Formula 1 road courses, this European-style raceway boasts the USA's fastest indoor go-karts (up to 45mph).
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Richard Petty Driving Experience
If you've got a need for speed, this driving experience is your chance to ride shotgun during a Nascar-style qualifying run.
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Lawn Bowling Club
Pins seem ungainly and bowling shirts unthinkable once you've joined the sweater-clad enthusiasts on America's first public bowling green. Free lessons are available from member volunteers at noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays; call to confirm volunteer availability. Flat-soled shoes are mandatory, but otherwise people dress for comfort and the weather – though all-white clothing has been customary at club social events since 1901.
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San Francisco Model Yacht Club
Kids go nuts for the impeccable scale-model yachts that sail on an oversized fountain called Spreckels Lake. Collectors lovingly build and maintain these ship-shape crafts in the adjacent clubhouse, and occasionally throw miniature regattas (check the website). Turtles sunbathe on the shore – Spreckels Lake has become a refuge for wayward and abandoned turtles.
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Circus Center Trapeze
If you've ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus, indulge your fantasy at this circus-arts school, where adults and kids learn everything from contortionist tricks to the flying trapeze. Serious pupils with red-rubber noses attend the school's Clown Conservatory, the only clown-training school in the US.
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Flycasting Club
Across from the buffalo paddock in Golden Gate Park are casting pools with targets open to the general public. Fly casters practice here in their waders, gracefully setting a fly from a thin line that looks about a mile long. Check the website for upcoming free casting lessons.
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New York Trapeze School
Fulfill your circus dreams, like Carrie did on Sex and the City, flying trapeze to trapeze in this open-air tent by the river. It’s open from May to September, on top of Pier 40. The school also has an indoor facility open year-round. Call or check the website for daily class times. There’s a one-time $22 registration fee.
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Chelsea Piers Complex
This massive waterfront sports center caters to the athlete in everyone. You can set out to hit a bucket of golf balls at the four-level driving range, ice skate on the complex’s indoor rink or rent in-line skates to cruise along the new bike path on the Hudson River Park – all the way down to Battery Park. The complex has a jazzy bowling alley, Hoop City for basketball, a sailing school for kids, batting cages, a huge gym facility with an indoor pool (day passes for nonmembers are $50), indoor rock-climbing walls – the works. There’s even waterfront dining and drinking at the Chelsea Brewing Company, which serves great pub fare and delicious home brews for you to…
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Wheel Fun Rentals
Glide around Golden Gate and dip into the Sunset on a reasonable rental. To cruise the waterfront, head to its second location in the Marina at Fort Mason (call for directions; it's in a parking lot).
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Sin City Rollergirls
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