EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extracurricular activity mean? 

• EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY (noun)
  The noun EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum

  Familiarity information: EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("extracurricular activity" is a kind of...):

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extracurricular activity"):

dramatics (participation in theatrical productions as an extracurricular activity)

athletics (participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity)