What is "extracurricular"

Usage examples of "extracurricular".

It occurs to Ken Erdedy, looking up into the oak past his upraised hands, that this deformed veiled girl likes Don Gately in an extracurricular way, it would seem.

Thank God for cheerleading, an extracurricular activity that her father endorsed since it provided the way his only daughter could participate in the male sport of football.

There were many: She needed more freedom, more involvement in high school activities, later curfews, permission to drive with boys, money to attend the dances, extracurricular lessons so she could improve in an area she wanted to try out for, nicer clothes, parents who were more understanding and not so “outdated,” and so on.

Even though I reminded her, repeatedly, that Shameekas dad told her she is only allowed one extracurricular activity per semester, and shed already chosen cheerleading over student governing, in a decision sure to haunt her in her quest to be the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

All student groups offered their opportunities for service or for pleasure, for serious avocation or for extracurricular activity.

Jim had sought out the extracurricular activity that conflicted most efficiently with debate, then joined it: the Academy judo team.

And by God, if she didn't redeem herself by getting the lowdown by lunchtime, she'd contemplate taking on another extracurricular activity other than gossiping.

He had lost his two best friends, one of whom appeared to be involved in what was clearly an exceedingly dangerous extracurricular activity.

However by 1989, if you signed up for an extracurricular activity in school or applied for a minimum wage job, you could be asked to forego your right to privacy, protection from self-incrimination, Constitutional requirements of reasonable grounds for search and seizure, presumed innocence until found guilty by your peers, and that most fundamental right of all: personal responsibility for your own life and consciousness.

The sounds of extracurricular activity penetrated a long distance, it seemed, and the neighbors wasted no time dealing themselves in.

The only extracurricular activity I went out for in high school was baseball.

There wasn’t any doubt in my mind that next fall, in spite of his bad grades, lack of extracurriculars and poor attendance record, Jack would get into one of the top art schools in the country—Rhode Island School of Design or Parsons or even Yale.

Still, just about every parent seems to believe that her child will thrive if only he can attend the right school, the one with an appropriate blend of academics, extracurriculars, friendliness, and safety.

But then I dropped a couple of extracurriculars, knuckled down, and brought that grade right up.

Turned out the loose change she was able to gather on these extracurricular excursions amounted eventually to a pile large enough to trade in on the famous white bungalow where Bud and Glenda had been herding couples down the aisle now for more than thirty years, and if the smooth functioning of this matrimonial machine required certain emollients obtainable only in certain nondomestic locales, then Glenda's periodic absences were a demanding but vital sacrifice.