excursion
noun
[ ɪkˈskəːʃ(ə)n ]
• a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity.
• "an excursion to London Zoo"
Similar:
trip,
outing,
jaunt,
expedition,
journey,
tour,
day trip,
day out,
drive,
run,
ride,
junket,
spin,
hop,
hurl,
• a deviation from a regular activity or course.
• "the firm's disastrous excursion into the US electrical market"
• a movement of something along a path or through an angle.
• "large excursions of the hip and knee joint"
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘act of running out’, also ‘sortie’ in the phrase alarums and excursions (see alarum): from Latin excursio(n- ), from the verb excurrere ‘run out’, from ex- ‘out’ + currere ‘to run’.
