1. excursion(n = noun.act) expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay - a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
is a kind of journey, journeying
has particulars: airing, field trip
Derived form noun excursionist1
2. excursion(n = noun.act) digression - wandering from the main path of a journey;
is a kind of journey, journeying
Derived form noun excursionist1
1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. [1913 Webster]
"Far on excursion toward the gates of hell." [1913 Webster]
"They would make excursions and waste the country." [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." [1913 Webster]
4. Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
excursion, n.
1 a short journey or ramble for pleasure, with return to the starting-point.
2 a digression.
3 Astron. a deviation from a regular path.
4 archaic a sortie (see ALARUM).
Derivative:
excursional adj. excursionary adj. excursionist n.
Etymology:
L excursio f. excurrere excurs- (as EX-(1), currere run)
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.
N circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about.