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extracurricular activity

NOUN
educational activities outside of the regular curriculum
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Lovelace said she will also have to tell her 4-year-old daughter to choose just one extracurricular activity instead of three.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

On Thursday the government announced plans for a new School Sport Partnerships and Enrichment Framework for schools to ensure all young people have equal access to high-quality sport and extracurricular activity.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2025

They are also here because playing in bands like the Ocean of Soul isn’t about school participation and it’s not about knocking out an extracurricular activity.

From Seattle Times Sep. 12, 2023

Growing up in New Jersey, Pinnock, an only child raised by an immigration attorney single mother, first began acting in school plays as an extracurricular activity.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2023

We’d have paperwork by the end of the week to make the club official, which meant that, for the first time in my life, I’d be involved in an extracurricular activity, which felt strange.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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