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• present participle of club.

clubbing

American  

[kluhb-ing] / ˈklʌb ɪŋ /

noun

Informal.

• clubbings
  plural

1. the activity of going to nightclubs, especially to dance to popular music, drink, and socialize.

   Clubbing every night is expensive, not to mention tiring.

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clubbing British  

/ ˈklʌbɪŋ /

noun

1. the activity of frequenting nightclubs and similar establishments

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• clubbings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of clubbing

club + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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clubbing clubbings

It’s such a primal feeling to go clubbing, to all come together and dance to a beat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Zakharova is only just inside the world's top 100 but had won three matches to get to this stage and was clubbing the ball powerfully from the baseline.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

Possible targets include rheumatoid arthritis, anemia and finger clubbing.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

She had just turned 18 and it was her first time clubbing in the city.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

Lately Sam had been showing up to my competitions late, if at all, and dressed like he was going out clubbing in Harlem in the 1920s.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

It is a white-hot musical experience that invokes the malaise of the times better than all the sit-ins, beards, beads and clubbings that wrench contemporary life.

From Time Magazine Archive

So they passed from my sight into the regions of the honeymoon, and the clubbings and general hidings which follow it.

From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales