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Excursion   /ɪkskˈərʒən/   Listen
Excursion

noun
1.
A journey taken for pleasure.  Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay.  "It was merely a pleasure trip" , "After cautious sashays into the field"
2.
Wandering from the main path of a journey.  Synonym: digression.



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"Excursion" Quotes from Famous Books



... until, about five years ago, I obtained an engagement in a family in New Jersey, living in the very town where that unlucky panorama was exhibited. It happened, as you know, that you and I rode in the same car from New York, where I had been on a shopping excursion. I recognized and was profoundly impressed with your resemblance to your brother. Learning that you were connected with the panorama, I attended the exhibition, that I might observe you more closely. There you ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... them to the mountain, where they builded her an impregnable castle, never saw eyes the like thereof. Then he made ready vivers and carriage for the journey and, going in to his daughter by night, bade her prepare to set out on a pleasure-excursion. Thereupon her heart presaged the sorrows of separation and, when she went forth and saw the preparations for the journey, she wept with sore weeping and wrote that upon the door which might acquaint ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... the recollection of that journey to the coast on the first train through is far sweeter to me than any trips taken since. It was the exultant moment of pioneer work, and we were all pioneers on that excursion." And we add again all due honour to the famous corps that had watched over the destinies of ...
— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

... forces, long after those beds were not only laid down and hardened, but faulted and tilted on end. Snowdon itself is so remarkable an instance of this fact that, as it is a mountain which every one in these happy days of excursion-trains and steamers either has seen or can see, I must say a ...
— Town Geology • Charles Kingsley

... fast now, and the men began to move about more as if making preparations for some excursion ...
— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn


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