text: Extracurricular activities can help improve students' social skills because they have to interact and work with each other outside of school so much that many students will even start to make new friends. If a student is playing a sport it will help him/her get outside and get fresh air after hours of being stuck inside school. Playing a sport will require exercise making the students healthier and therefore happier. Studies show that students that do not engage in any extracurricular activities are known to have a hard time interacting socially with their peers and are sometimes unhealthy because of the lack of exercise.