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excursion

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ex=cur=sion

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun excursion has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

excursion,  [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.].
  •  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]
  •  A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A wandering from a subject; digression.  [1913 Webster]
    "I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
Syn. -- Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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)

THESAURUS

excursion

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

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excursion

Journey

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!.

Circuition

N circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about.

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