extracurricular activity

extracurricular activity

1. Literally, an activity that a student does in addition to their studies (the curriculum). With your grades and extracurricular activities, you'll get into any college you want.
2. slang Sexual activity, often that which is clandestine. If Jen didn't come home last night, I bet she and Bill were preoccupied with some extracurricular activities, if you know what I mean.
3. slang Fighting or arguing that occurs among competitors during a sporting event. It looks like both teams were flagged for some extracurricular activity after that last play.
See also: activity
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • make much of
  • make much of (someone or something)
  • make much of somebody/something
  • literally
  • (the) survival of the fittest
  • beat the hell out of
  • beat the living daylights out of someone
  • beat the tar out of
  • beat/knock/kick the hell out of somebody/something
  • beat/scare the daylights out of somebody
References in periodicals archive
Kelley refers to the Extracurricular Activity project as a commentary on the horizon of failed modern utopias, a kickback against the idea of art transforming the world.
The Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction series of videos arose from my desire to fill in the blanks in Educational Complex, 1995 (an architectural model made up of every school I have ever attended), with some kind of action.
1000 words: Mike Kelley talks about "Day Is Done" (2005)
Academic achievement and extracurricular activity in high school was, however, higher among the controls.
Leaving hyperactivity behind
Sports are a great extracurricular activity because of all the benefits that help combat the danger of obesity plaguing America.
How to get your peers to support the athletic program
Indicators examined in this report relate to: (1) daily interactions (children never living away from home, mealtimes shared, daily interaction with fathers, praising/talking to child, reading interaction, family television rules, and family outings); (2) extracurricular activity participation (clubs, sports, and lessons); (3) academic achievement (academically on-track, gifted class enrollment, changing schools, grade repetition, suspension); (4) educational expectations for children; and (5) parents' feelings toward their children (such as child taking up more time than expected and parent anger with child).
A Child's Day: 2000 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being). Household Economic Studies. Currect Population Reports
DENNIS COOPER: Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 was generated by two earlier works, Educational Complex, 1995, and Sublevel, 1998.
For "Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction," the idea is to come up with a number of scenarios of trauma to fill in these blank areas and explain my selective amnesia.
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