extracurricular activity

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Ellison's extracurricular activity to date has tended to skew toward yachting, tennis, anti-aging research and buying an island in Hawaii.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

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

From Salon • Jul. 6, 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

The education ministry has encouraged schools to incorporate the goals into their lesson plans, and many parents have dutifully added the subject to their extracurricular activity list.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Henry was president of the Senior Debating Society, the only extracurricular activity he had time for, and Jean Louise was a fat fourteen, immersed in Victorian poetry and detective novels.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee