excursion
excursion
/ɪkˈskɜːʃn/
1 a short journey made for pleasure, especially one that has been organized for a group of people
on an excursion They've gone on an excursion to York.
There are regular weekend excursions throughout the summer.
Our ship offers 13 different excursions.
Princess Tours runs independent excursions from selected hotels.
We decided to make an all-day excursion to the island.
We signed up for a shore excursion to New Orleans.
Optional excursions include a tour of the ancient city and a day's horse-riding.
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adjective
verb + excursion
take (somebody on)
preposition
excursion into
excursion to
2 excursion into something (formal) a short period of trying a new or different activity
After a brief excursion into drama, he concentrated on his main interest, which was poetry.
her first excursion into business
Word Origin
late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘act of running out’), from Latin excursio(n-), from the verb excurrere ‘run out’, from ex- ‘out’ + currere ‘to run’.
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