Spa

The word Spa can have a number of meanings:

Places

• Spa, Belgium
  • Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, often shortened to "Spa"; a racing circuit located in Spa, Belgium
• Spa town

Baths

"Sanus per aquam" (lat.)

• Thermae
• Public bath
• Hot spring
• Bath (disambiguation)

Personal care

• Resort Spa A destination, usually a hotel that provides a luxurious environment and pampers the body. Frequently with special diets
• Health Spa
• Day Spa
• Trim Spa
• Spa cuisine
• A place to go for an extended say of a week or more that provide wraps, baths, massages , manicures , pedicures , Body treatments , Aromatherapy, Nutrition and weight guidance, private trainers, yoga, and meditation
• A large tub for soaking, usually outdoors and containing whirlpool jets. Generically know in the US as a spa

Other uses

• Onsen
• Soda Fountain Eastern New England, US usage
• Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
• Seaplane Pilots Association

• The term "spa" is traditionally used to mean a place where water that is believed to have special health-giving properties occurs. This is usually a mineral or hot spring.

• A modern spa is a luxurious resort or resort hotel, usually one located near a special water source and/or offers hot tub or similar warm-water hydromassage facilities.