About The Word Excursion
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Excursion
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What's The Definition Of Excursion?
[n] wandering from the main path of a journey
[n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" Synonyms | Synonyms for Excursion: digression | expedition | jaunt | junket | outing | pleasure trip | sashay Related Terms | Find terms related to Excursion: aberrancy | aberration | airing | ambages | aside | bend | bias | branching off | bypass | bypath | byway | campaign | circling | circuit | circuition | circuitousness | circuitry | circularity | circulation | circumambience | circumambiency | circumambulation | circumbendibus | circumflexion | circumlocution | circummigration | circumnavigation | corner | course | crook | crosswiseness | cruise | curve | declination | deflection | deflexure | departure | detour | deviance | deviancy | deviation | deviousness | diagonality | digression | discursion | divagation | divarication | divergence | diversion | dogleg | double | drift | drifting | drive | episode | errantry | excursus | exorbitation | expedition | grand tour | gyre | gyring | hairpin | hike | indirection | indirectness | jaunt | journey | junket | lionism | meandering | nonconformity | obliqueness | obliquity | orbit | orbiting | outing | package tour | parenthesis | peregrination | pererration | pilgrimage | pleasure trip | progress | ramble | rambling | ride | round trip | roundabout | roundabout way | roundaboutness | rounding | rubberneck tour | run | safari | sail | sally | sheer | shift | shifting | shifting course | shifting path | shoot | side path | side road | sidetrack | sight-seeing | skew | skewness | slant | spiral | spiraling | squint | stalk | straying | stroll | sweep | swerve | swerving | swinging | tack | tour | transverseness | trek | trip | turn | turning | twist | vagary | variation | veer | voyage | walk | walkabout | wandering | warp | wheeling | yaw | zigzag See Also | airing | field trip | journey | journeying Excursion In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*cur"sion\ [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See
{Excurrent}.]
1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. --Milton.
They would make excursions and waste the country.
--Holland.
2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief
tour; as, an excursion into the country.
3. A wandering from a subject; digression.
I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore
make no excursions. --Cowper.
4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An
awkward use of the word.]
Syn: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See {Journey}.
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