Railway_excursion

Excursion

Excursion

Trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes

For other uses, see Excursion (disambiguation).

An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.

An excursion outside Seattle, circa 1887
Early Advantage Montessori School children on excursion

Public transportation companies issue reduced price excursion tickets to attract business of this type. Often these tickets are restricted to off-peak days or times for the destination concerned.

Short excursions for education or for observations of natural phenomena are called field trips. One-day educational field studies are often made by classes as extracurricular exercises, e.g. to visit a natural or geographical feature.

The term is also used for short military movements into foreign territory, without a formal announcement of war.[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    An example of this use in a Newseek article
Look up excursion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Stub icon

This tourism-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Railway_excursion, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.