713940 Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating fitness and recreational sports facilities featuring exercise and other active physical fitness conditioning or recreational sports activities, such as swimming, skating, or racquet sports.

Examples Census gives

• Aerobic dance or exercise centers
• Ice or roller skating rinks
• Gymnasiums
• Physical fitness centers
• Handball, racquetball, or tennis club facilities
• Swimming or wave pools

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Establishments primarily engaged in providing non-medical services to assist clients in attaining or maintaining a desired weight are classified in U.S. Industry 812191, Diet and Weight Reducing Centers.
• Establishments primarily engaged in providing personal fitness training services without facilities are classified in Industry 812990, All Other Personal Services.
• Establishments primarily engaged in operating instructional camps (e.g., sports camps) or providing instruction in sports and other recreational activities (e.g., aerobic dance or exercise instruction, yoga instruction) are classified in Sector 61, Educational Services, based on the nature of instruction.
• Establishments primarily engaged in operating health resorts and spas where recreational facilities are combined with accommodations are classified in Industry 721110, Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels.
• Recreational sports clubs (i.e., sports teams) not operating sports facilities are classified in Industry 713990, All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Personal trainer
• Gym or fitness studio
• Yoga or Pilates studio
• Martial arts school

Activities listed under 713940

The Census index assigns these 33 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Aerobic dance and exercise centers
• Athletic club facilities, physical fitness
• Body building studios, physical fitness
• Dance centers, aerobic
• Exercise centers
• Fitness centers
• Fitness salons
• Fitness spas without accommodations
• Gymnasiums
• Gyms, physical fitness
• Handball club facilities
• Health club facilities, physical fitness
• Health spas without accommodations, physical fitness
• Health studios, physical fitness
• Ice skating rinks
• Physical fitness centers
• Physical fitness facilities
• Physical fitness studios
• Pilates fitness studios or centers
• Racquetball club facilities
• Recreational sports club facilities
• Rinks, ice or roller skating
• Roller skating rinks
• Spas without accommodations, fitness
• Sports club facilities, physical fitness
• Squash club facilities
• Strength development centers
• Swimming pools
• Tennis club facilities
• Tennis courts
• Wave pools
• Weight training centers
• Yoga fitness studios or centers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 713940

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 713940, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $17.5 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 9311), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 93110Operation of sports facilitiesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

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