If you grew up in the 80s/early 90s. Did you do extra curricular activities?

I definitely remember having less books than my DC have now. I read and re-read my books loads and used the library. My DC really enjoy reading too but not sure they've ever re-,read a book and my DD at least has lots on her shelf she's not read yet.

Swimming, gymnastics, netball, cross country, St John Badgers mainly.

Born in 1978 so was a child in the 80s/early 90s. Did Sunday school, ballet and brownies when I was little then guides, youth clubs, swimming team as a younger teen. Was quite involved in church community (although not really very religious!) and did summer play schemes until I was 12 then I helped at them (2 weeks every summer). Joined a choir at 13 for a while. Once I discovered booze and boys at 14 it all went to shit though.

Swimming. Enjoyed the training, hated the gala.

Maybe it just felt like it to me, but school always seemed to do country dancing and barn dances to raise funds. No barns were involved, just a school hall and canteen.

Oh we had swimming lessons too weekly at the council pool.

Hockey, camogie, music, Scouts. Not all at the same time though. I flitted. Same as yourself with swimming, I taught myself and just about stay afloat.

I definitely had as many family outings as a DC as we do now. We still saw friends and often just played/hung out but they came with us on outings too. Same for my DC now.

Yes 80s childhood and did brownies then guides weekly at a church and went on pack holiday and camping.
I also did tap and ballet weekly from age 3 at a local dance school.
When I was primary school age I also went to Sunday school for an hour Sunday afternoons. We weren’t particularly religious.
My brother played football and cubs. Most children did similar I lived in a semi detached house in suburbs.

Born in the first half of the 90ies, so I suppose that counts.

violin, choir and horse riding were my consistent extracurriculars (from about 5 to late teens / early 20ies).

other extracurriculars:

judo, acrobatics (short time, I loved it but my lack of coordination unfortunately embarrassed my mum 😕), ballet (even shorter), kayaking, ice hockey (never again!), some “hip-hop” (=< or whatever our instructor decided to call hiphop 😂) as a young teen.

swimming lessons every summer but that was more of a holiday activity than an extracurricular 🤔

I was also a camp leader and social chair!

I briefly went to Brownies and quit because it was boring to me unlike my brothers who went to Beavers/Cubs/Scouts and got to collect badges and go on camps. That was the end of any extra curricular activities for me! Some of my brothers got to do football, karate and/or swimming. I guess they didn’t know what to do with a girl!

This made me laugh! Chuck in neighbours and brookside too, and that's my childhood

I also did swimming lessons and both mine did pre-school swimming lessons before they started lessons at school.

Yes. I tried ballet, gym and horse riding at different times - none of which lasted. (I think gym lasted three weeks!)
I did swimming for years and loved it.
I also started Brownies and stuck with the guide movement until I left to go to uni by which time I was a helper with a brownie pack.
And music. That was my big thing. I started Piano aged 7, flute aged 9, saxophone aged 14. I learned them all out of school but played in all the bands etc in school.

I think it's more of a money thing. Many DC from poorer families now do no extra curriculers.

Yes, I did Ballet, Modern and Tap and also Brownies and then Guides. Also did choir and roller skating when older. I remember most of the girls in my class doing Brownies. At Grammar school many girls did horse riding and musical instruments/choir as well as dance.

My eldest did karate, gymnastics, Beavers and then Cubs.
My youngest used to do Rainbows, then Brownies. She did Ballet and Modern for a few years then switched to gymnastics. She also does horse riding and plays the violin.

So I would say we have done similar amounts.

I did piano lessons, Girls Brigade and tennis lessons. All chosen by my parents. I wanted to do netball but they didn't want to spend their Saturdays driving around to sport.

I did (over the course of my childhood, not all at once and none to a particularly high level).gymnastics, ballet, tap, art classes, circus skills, violin lessons, drama, fencing, school choir, sign language and philosophy evening classes, guides and Duke of Edinburgh (for which I also did conservation volunteers).

Was pushed into Girls Brigade (like brownies but more God-bothering and also free) by my mum but hated it with a passion. It was a Wednesday night which meant missing Dallas on the telly. Went for about a year and whined so much I was allowed to leave.

Didn't do anything else as I was "odd" (likely ASD but that wasn't a thing in the 80s really) and we were poor.

Neither of my kids were huge on extra curricular stuff either - DD did pretty much nothing and DS tends to start things and give up.

Ballet for 4 years in the local village hall. Half heartedly tried "modern" dance at 15 with my best friend but we would just skip and go smoke behind the building and flirt with some boys. We lived in the countryside and our parents didn't have much money either. I went to "summer camp" a few times (between 1 week and 1 month).

I went to Brownies until i was 10 and then a dance class for about 4 years. I feel one evening a week was enough and certainly don't feel as though i missed out on anything.

Ooh and country dancing club; that was the best. Cumberland Square 8!

Swimming
Brownies
Ballet
Violin (really badly)
Badminton
Table tennis
Piano

Some of these activities were free or cost peanuts.

No but I grew up in a rural area and there wasn't really anything unless we drove to the next town which was 15 miles away

I did ballet and tap but hated it.
Church club during school holidays.
Horse riding at the weekends (when I stopped ballet).