extracurricular activities
Beyond-the-classroom involvement
Extracurricular activities are pursuits outside the standard academic curriculum—sports teams, debate clubs, theater productions, volunteer work.
Schools and colleges value them as evidence of well-roundedness: Her extracurricular activities helped her college application stand out.
The phrase sometimes implies anything beyond one's primary responsibilities, occasionally with suggestive undertones about romantic or sexual adventures outside a committed relationship.
- after schoolPeriod following classes
- student councilElected pupil representatives
- honor societyStudent excellence recognition organization
- science fairStudent experiment competition
- yearbookSchool memory publication
drama club · track and field · book club · dance troupe · fundraising campaigns · field trip · vocational training · volunteering · scholarships · volunteer work · intramurals · team captain · competitions · teamwork · adolescence · marching band · school spirit · debate
- school termsfreshman, sophomore, junior, senior, homework
- university studentscampus life, dorms, dormitory, dormitory life, exams
- youth programsyouth groups, youth programs, Girl Scouts, youth camps, after-school programs
- Ecuadorian schoolscolegio, universidad, basic education, higher education, private schools
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- Boys Educationboys' schools, male students, single-sex education, boys clubs, Boy Scouts
extracurricular activitiescore curriculum
Mandatory foundational coursework
mandatory classes · required courses · compulsory education · graduation requirements · classroom instruction
extracurricular activitiesclassroom learning
Instruction in a school setting
academic work · formal education · lectures · exams · desk work
extracurricular activitiesobligations
Required responsibilities
duties · assignments · chores · responsibilities · compulsory labor