excursion

Meaning

Noun

1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
2. (Australia) A field trip.
3. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
4. An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
5. A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

Verb

To go on a recreational trip or excursion.

Synonyms

outing

trip

journey

tour

jaunt

field trip

voyage

pleasure trip

junket

digression

expedition

travel

sightseeing trip

picnic

shifting

displacement

shift

drift

sashay

amplitude

sally

dispersion

oscillation

polarization

ramble

range

recreation

remove

removing

round trip

run

safari

sightseeing

sortie

space

span

sprouting

squint

study trip

swept

swing

transfer

transferring

traveling

walk

🚶

wander

wandering

study tour

displase

migration

Translations

excursion

excursión

escursione

Ausflug

Exkursion

excursão

excursie

gita

tocht

excursió

εκδρομή

uitstapje

trip

Exkurs

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion.