A leisure centre , sports centre , recreation center , or aquatics centre is a purpose-built building or site, usually owned and provided by the local government authority , where people can engage in a variety of sports and exercise , and keep fit .
5-983: Sportsplex is a name used by several sports complexes or leisure centres . It may refer to: Canada [ edit ] Brandon Community Sportsplex , Brandon, Manitoba Dartmouth Sportsplex , Dartmouth, Nova Scotia ENMAX Centre , Lethbridge (formerly the Canada Games Sportsplex) Nepean Sportsplex , Ottawa United States [ edit ] Bellingham Sportsplex , Bellingham, Washington Centennial Sportsplex , Nashville, Tennessee Darien Sportsplex Ice Arena , Darien, Illinois Mecklenburg County Sportsplex , Matthews, North Carolina Orange Beach Sportsplex , Orange Beach, Alabama The Podium , Spokane, Washington Taylor Sportsplex , Taylor, Michigan Virginia Beach Sportsplex , Virginia Beach, Virginia See also [ edit ] Sports complex Topics referred to by
10-453: A solarium , sauna and/or steam room . Some of its functions may overlap with that of a community centre . Leisure centres are staffed by attendants who carry out a range of tasks to help and supervise the people using the leisure centre's facilities, and act as swimming pool lifeguards , gym instructors and coaches , offering advice, motivation, and expertise to users. Leisure centres are often operated by private companies on contract to
15-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leisure centre Facilities typically include a swimming pool , a large sports hall, and a gym , and may include: aerobics studios, an indoor cycling studio, squash courts, a cafeteria , a licensed bar , outdoor grass and/or artificial pitches for football (soccer) , hockey etc.,
20-495: The local authority. Some leisure centres, particularly in Australia, are called aquatic centres , if their main facilities are pools for swimming , diving , and other aquatic sports . This article about a sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aquatic sports Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to
25-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sportsplex . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sportsplex&oldid=1221108080 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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