'Excursion' definitions:
Definition of 'excursion'
(from WordNet)
noun
A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]
noun
Wandering from the main path of a journey [syn: digression, excursion]
Definition of 'Excursion'
From: GCIDE
- Excursion \Ex*cur"sion\ [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]
- 1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. [1913 Webster]
- Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- They would make excursions and waste the country. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A wandering from a subject; digression. [1913 Webster]
- I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
- Syn: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excursion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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