# Pub crawl

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 27, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856 "2003-05-27T20:04:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/1 "2003-05-27T20:04:17Z")

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I’ve heard the term used before by British people, but what the heck is it?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/2 "2003-05-27T20:21:51Z")

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It’s an evening (or afternoon) spent visiting several pubs in turn, consuming at least one drink in each.

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/3 "2003-05-27T20:23:58Z")

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Pub crawl = going from pub to pub (to pub to pub to pub …) having a drink (or drinks) in each.

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**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/4 "2003-05-27T20:25:16Z")

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It’s where a group of people, usually a university student group (e.g. the geology students’ society at the University of X), go out drinking at a series of pubs, usually having 1-2 drinks at each pub. They generally end up at a dancier place for the last few hours of the night, probably so all the drunk people can pick a classmate to have drunken, regrettable sex with.

Often you pay $10-20 and get a t-shirt, bus fare, and cover charge for the final club, or something like that.

I bet someone beat me to this.

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**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/5 "2003-05-27T20:26:48Z")

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Sorry, not bus fare, a seat on a chartered bus of some sort. I went to university in a city where there are lots of pubs in one area, so the bus thing wasn’t that common.

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**Author:** ![Jake4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jake4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake4)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/6 "2003-05-27T20:44:42Z")

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pub crawl = bar hopping

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**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/7 "2003-05-27T20:45:11Z")

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Thanks again.

That’s kinda what I figured. I usually just call it “Friday night” 😃

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**Author:** ![kunoichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@kunoichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kunoichi)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawl/177856/8 "2003-05-27T23:10:19Z")

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Of course once you get bored with a normal pub crawl, you could give pub golf a go…