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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

Sometimes the extracurricular activity is so egregious it makes national news by itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

He didn’t have a lot of free hours, because basketball was a demanding extracurricular activity and a massive time-suck, but we always found a way to make it work.

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




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