In general, there are 4 main ways to meet women and arrange first dates.
1. Approaching strangers in non-bar venues (commonly called day game)
2. Approaching strangers in bars/nightlife venues (commonly called night game)
3. Using tech-based methods (swipe apps, websites, and social media platforms)
4. Meeting people through your social circle of friends and acquaintances (commonly called social circle game)
There are a few things in life that straddle the border of one of those 4 main ways. They commonly take the form of activity groups or organized events. Some people call these things 'warm approaches'. I try not to use the term 'warm approaches', instead calling everything a stranger approach. Some stranger approaches are easier to pull off than others.
My favorite example in discussing activity groups/organized events are co-ed sports leagues. There are plenty of adult co-ed sports sports leagues there. They are commonly in soccer, softball, volleyball, kickball, and basketball.
Co-ed sports leagues can be considered a form of weak social circle game.
They are not day game at all. It's not night game either although teams from a league will often congregate at a sponsor bar after that week's games. It’s pretty difficult to swoop into a co-ed kickball, softball, volleyball, or soccer league & directly arrange dates. First, there are more men than women in all these leagues. Nearly every other guy in these leagues is an unattached guy who is trying to get his penis wet in league because he read some advice article online or in a printed copy of a magazine about doing this. The only exceptions are the men who join teams with their girlfriends or wives. You can make friends in these leagues but chances are that the other men need sex as much as you do. If you’re able to develop a social circle from a co-ed sports league, realize it will take multiple seasons of participation in the league. So you’d better actually like that sport because playing that sport is often the only benefit of it.
What interesting "hobbies" do you guys actually have? Trains sets? Medieval roleplay? Hobbies are bullchit things single men do when they dont have girls to chill with or they are butthurt about a girl.
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There are also structured singles events. See thread below for a good discussion of those.
Mostly every unattached person has dealt with this. The potential invitation to a "singles event" or "singles mixer". It is a chance for unattached people to meet. It's not a general night out at a bar, which has unattached people interspersed with attached people. Everyone here is unattached by...
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Social circle game can be difficult to do for a lot of reasons. There are a lot of variables that go into whether social circle can be effective for a man. There are plenty of reasons why social circle won't be applicable. It is also possible to have friends and not have a social circle that is capable of arranging dates. Social circle game has been discussed on this forum a lot over the years. Use the search function.
There's a 5th option that is rarely ever talked about on this forum for finding dates and relationships.
Matchmaker services. There are plenty of matchmaking services out there. Many of them used to advertise inside of in-flight magazines on commercial airlines. During one flight in the 2010s, I opened up an in-flight magazine to count the number of matchmaking services that were advertised. There were multiple ones in that issue. Matchmaker services are typically used by beta male older men (35+) with money who aren't meeting people through real life options or the tech-based options. I linked a YouTube video about a very high end matchmaking service, but even the more reasonably priced matchmaking services are quite expensive. Good luck finding a matchmaking service under $10,000-$15,000 now.
