Excursion

Noun

 * 1) A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way
 * While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.

Adjectives for Excursion
amatory; vague; opportune; equestrian; pedestrian; novel; episodical; periodical; rural; provincial; preliminary; piratical; involuntary; compulsory; sporting; restless; predatory; hunting; sketching; torch-light.

Verbs for Excursion
anticipate—; arrange-; part on—; embark on-; organize—; plan—; take—; undertake-joy—.

Synonyms for Excursion
jaunt, ramble, expedition, outing, trip, tour, journey, voyage, travel, digression, episode, divergence.

Derived terms

 * alarums and excursions
 * excursion steamer

Related terms

 * excursus

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

Etymology
From excursio: < excurrere: < ex: + currere:

Translations

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 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: excursão, viagem de recreio, passeio
 * Serbian: ekskurzija
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 * Telugu: విహారయాత్ర (vihaarayaatra)