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

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I'm interested to see what is the norm.

I did nothing, no swimming, dance, brownies or anything like that. I do remember other girls doing Brownies and Ballet after school and asking my mum if I could go. She shut it down and told me I wouldn't like it.

These days of course most children do a lot of extra curricular activities but wondering if perhaps it wasn't such a thing years ago.

I want to guides.

I’m 40. I did rainbows, brownies then guides. Ballet, tap and majorette dancing until about age 8 when I switched to tennis lessons. Swimming lessons. Music lessons.

Oh and school netball team then county.

100%
The funny thing is, I actually didn’t realise how lucky I was at the time to get the opportunities to do everything. Took it for granted completely.
Horses (riding, competing.mucking out the full farm upbringing) piano lessons, athletics, cross country running club on Sunday, swimming club on Thursday nights, highland dancing on Saturday, netball. Brownies, guides, gymnastics.
I remember moaning about it sometimes. How little did I know and how much I didn’t appreciate what mum and dad did for me and my siblings,

Brownies, Guides on a Tuesday evening and the swimming lessons on a Saturday morning. Played netball, hockey and basketball for the school team until I was 14. Learnt euphonium at primary school for a few years.

70s child here. I had piano lessons and dancing paid for out of school. But lots of days out at weekends and holidays too at local beaches in summer and the moorland in the winter. My parents had not much money but I look back and really appreciate how hard they tried and what they gave me.

Oh. And my dad taught me to swim and ride a bike and surf.

Nope, so I got a Saturday job at 13.

Primary in the 80s.
my gran ran the local brownies so I went there.
horse riding
ice skating lessons
piano
clarinet

but I was an only child and when my dad died in an accident when I was 6 my mum had a large payout so we were comfortable financially

Swimming, skiing, music
Brother did rugby 1980s

Lol no. Briefly went to brownies but I felt bad for asking for subs every week.
Didn't have a car so was limited to the village anyway.
Begged for piano lessons, was told to ask the old lady over the road who had a piano to teach me, course I didn't.

Who knows what I could've been if we were middle class, sigh...

Oh oh… my ultimate favourite thing I loved was roller blading. Someone mentioned Ice skating on this and I would have loved to learn that at a young age. We didn’t have a rink. Closest
probably 200 miles plus. Next best thing was roller blades. I had to get a pair again to reminisce in my late 20s and nobody was stupid enough to come with me.
Born in 80s (THE DECADE!! )

Yes, when I was little we lived in London and I did ballet and then gymnastics (gymnastics quite seriously); we then moved to a rural area where there was no gymnastics but I did swimming, had flute lessons, two orchestras, brownies, guides, local hockey team as well as school hockey team, horse riding lessons (I should say, obviously not all of them all at the same time, but over the course of my school years) - this was over 80s and 90s.

No, nothing.

Horse riding, ballet, piano, drama lessons. My parents were really supportive of my sister and myself doing things that weren’t able to do as kids.

80s - swimming, brownies, piano, horse riding (plus mucking out and grooming!) French club, ballet

My older sister did flute and drama and my brother did rugby and played guitar.

Looking back, I know we were not well off so God bless my parents for somehow offering us all of that.

I did brownies and swimming lessons. Tried dancing but was hopeless. There was a local youth group as well

Yes.
6 dance classes per week.
Swimming lessons.
Brownies/Guides.
Amateur dramatics in late 90s.
Youth club on a Sunday.
Another random girls group one afternoon.
I was in the Church choir for a while.

Fuck knows how my mum afforded it all!

I was heavily into gymnastics, at one point 6 days a week. At other times I also did brownies, badminton, trampolining, riding, school netball, ballet, violin tuition and an orchestra group.

Between me and 2 my daughters we did
Brownies
guides
swimming lessons
Horse riding
Musical theatre
Dance camps
Ballet
Athletics
Water sports
Netball
Rowing
Rock climbing
Cheerleading
Academic tutoring....

My poor mum! I was keen to try everything! I did lots of dancing, brownies, swimming, horse riding, piano lessons, choir, drama club and football.
I've just gone back to tap and I've continued with the drama group into adulthood.

I did brownies, athletics, music (flute and clarinet), tennis and gymnastics.

I did nothing. I was very much a homebody who liked my own company.

I was forced to attend Judo classes, and I hated it. To this day, I still resent my parents for making me go. I was awful at it, and they made me feel bad for that.

Brownies for a while. Nothing else because we were too poor.

We were not well off but I did quite a lot. Ballet, tap, modern, trampolining, gymnastics, horse riding, balllet again, jazz, drama, stage coach, summer club musical, brownies & guides (2 different guide groups). There might have been more!

To be fair, I never really stuck at much. I wasn't very good at any of them and the other girls never liked me. The only thing I did stick at was brownies.