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Queen's University at Kingston has one of the oldest and most comprehensive university athletics programs in Canada. The program dates from 1860, when a local military man, Colonel Angus Cameron, persuaded the University's Board of Trustees to set up a small gym in Summerhill, located on the Queen's campus, with "vaulting cross-bars, ladder ropes, and a few other items." Cameron was careful to request that the gym be "retired from jeering spectators," an indication of the low esteem in which athletics were held in the mid-19th century. The first organized sports were annual track and field competitions held on October 16, University Day, at which students competed for prizes offered by the people of Kingston. These competitions, which began in the early 1870's, included the traditional Scottish caber toss, and were a major University event until early this century. The first team sport appears to have been soccer (then called football), which also made its debut in the early 1870's. Later in the decade, a form of "Association Football [i.e. soccer] with catching" appeared on campus – a distant predecessor of modern football. A closer relative, rugby football, was introduced in 1882 by two brothers who brought the English rules of the game down from their home in Ottawa. Snowshoeing and curling were the most popular winter sports before the emergence of hockey in 1886. Sports were initially restricted to male students, but there was a women's hockey team in action as early as 1894, and, before the construction of Queen's first gymnasium building in 1907, women had their own small gym on the top floor of Theological Hall. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Queen's had become a national powerhouse in sports. The men's hockey team appeared in three Stanley Cup finals around the turn of the century (losing all three) and the football team won three consecutive Grey Cups in the early 1920s.

Under the guidance of Queen's University Athletics and Physical Education, latterly known as Queen's University Athletics and Recreation, Queen's sports programmes have grown steadily this century, guided by a desire to allow the maximum possible participation by students. The programme is now one of the broadest in the country. It has two main components: Interuniversity sports and Intramural sports. The Interuniversity programme has more than 40 men's and women's teams in 25 sports, most of which compete in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) organization, or the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Association (OWIAA). The Intramural programme is divided into three sections: Bews, or the men's league, named after James Bews, the University's "physical training" director from 1908 to 1937; the Women's Intramural Committee (commonly known as WIC), or the women's league; and the co-ed BEWIC league. Students compete on teams drawn from their course of study and/or academic year in about 30 different sports, ranging from hockey and basketball to innertube water polo and horseshoes. The entire University athletics program is supervised by the Queen's University Council on Athletics, which reports to the University Senate.

The Aboriginal Council of Queen's University was established in 1992, in conjunction with the five year Aboriginal Education and Training Strategy introduced by the Ministry of Education and Training. The purpose of the Council as stated in its terms of reference, are "to ensure that for generations hereafter Aboriginal peoples will have access to higher education at Queen's University, and that the institution will be responsive to the broader needs of Aboriginal peoples. According to its mandate, the Council shall be involved in all decisions affecting Aboriginal programs and services at Queen's University. The Council is composed of representatives from Aboriginal communities in Ontario, Queen's Aboriginal student representatives, and senior University personnel. Other members of the University serve on the Council as needed. The Council reports directly to the Senate and the Board of Trustees. The Council has also established the Four Directions Student Centre.

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The Pro Arte Singers, a 28-voice chamber choir, was founded by David Cameron in 1974 and turned professional in 1980. The conductors have been Cameron 1974-83 and Brian Jackson 1983-7, succeeded by Thomas Baker. The choir has premiered works by local composers David Barber, Richard Bronskill, John Burge, and David Keane.

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The Department of Surgery dates from the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine in 1854, when Dr. James Sampson was appointed the first Professor of Clinical Medicine and Surgery. Today, the Department consists of eight separate surgical divisions: Cardiac, General, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Plastics, Thoracic, Vascular and Maxillofacial. The Department has 32 full-time faculty plus numerous adjuncts and is accredited for the subspeciality resident training hospitals: the Kingston General Hospital and the Hotel Dieu Hospital. Faculty and residents provide tertiary care for patients at these hospitals, as well as being involved in a variety of research endeavours in surgery. The main office of the Department is located in Kingston General Hospital.

The Kingston Lawn Bowling Club was established in 1933. Lawn bowling in Kingston began in 1914 on property owned by Queens University. The current property was purchased in 1932, when there was a membership increase due to the fact that women were now allowed to join.

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