Definitions of excursion

1.   A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

2.   Deviation from a prescribed course; a going beyond fixed limits; a digression; a trip for health or pleasure.

3.   wandering from the main path of a journey

4.   a journey taken for pleasure; " many summer excursions to the shore"; " it was merely a pleasure trip"; " after cautious sashays into the field"

5.   A pleasure trip; a short or rapid tour.

6.   A going forth: an expedition: a trip for pleasure or health: a wandering from the main subject: a digression.

7.   A digression.

8.   A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

9.   Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [ An awkward use of the word.]

10.   An expedition; ramble; digression; pleasure trip.

11.   A pleasure- trip; a short tour; a ramble; a digression; a wandering from the subject or main design.

12.   A body of excursionists.

13.   A wandering from a subject; digression.

14.   A short journey; trip for pleasure.

Antonyms for excursion

motif, question, motive, topic, theme, matter.

Quotes of excursion

1. Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. – Taylor Caldwell

2. Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

3. I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion and the track before me was still less inviting. – Charles Sturt

4. The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. – Eudora Welty

Usage examples for excursion

1. “ All parties would be happier for an excursion ” – The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

2. “ He had waited too long for his great excursion ” – A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

3. “ She was as eager and as interested in their midnight excursion as any young girl could have been. ” – Madge Morton's Trust by Amy D. V. Chalmers

4. “ I am sorry we can't go on with the excursion but we can't, you know. ” – The Good Comrade by Una L. Silberrad

5. “ My father planned the excursion to the mountains and led the party. ” – Northwest! by Harold Bindloss

6. “ Besides these presents, not a day passed without some excursion to the country or party at the theatre; that fortnight must have cost me four hundred guineas at the least. ” – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

7. “ This is the Captain Playter, senior, of whom we have already spoken in our excursion up the valley of the Don. ” – Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

8. “ The evening was closing in fast now, and the men began to move about more as if making preparations for some excursion which they had in view. ” – A Dash from Diamond City by George Manville Fenn

9. “ So an excursion was arranged for the next day. ” – That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009

10. “ In the afternoon I landed again, accompanied by Captain Clerke, with a view to make another excursion up the country. ” – A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr

11. “ On the 13th of March, 1722, their Catholic Majesties returned from their excursion to the Retiro. ” – The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete by Duc de Saint-Simon

12. “ He answered the door himself, having only the moment before returned from his Sunday's excursion i. ” – Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

13. “ And these words they go on singing for an hour together, in the event of the absence of any of their relatives or friends upon a hunting or war excursion ” – Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Grey

14. “ On the following day I made an excursion with Scott and the young ladies to Dryburgh Abbey. ” – Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving

15. “ Almost every family in Briarfield was absent on an excursion ” – Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

16. “ " If you've honestly meant to begin again, I have certainly no wish to interfere," remarked Ordway, ignoring the other's excursion into the field of philosophy. ” – The Ancient Law by Ellen Glasgow

17. “ I daresay this young lady liked her excursion to town well enough. ” – Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

18. “ It was easy to see that they were not in the habit of coming away from their place, wherever it was; and I wondered whether they were finding their account in the present excursion ” – An Open-Eyed Conspiracy--An Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

19. “ Anyway, he is entitled to a little excursion 'all by his lonely, ' as he puts it. ” – Boy Scouts in an Airship by G. Harvey Ralphson

20. “ The voyage was in fact, even at this time of year, a most agreeable excursion ” – A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Otto von Kotzebue

Rhymes for excursion

• persian, version;
• aspersion, aversion, conversion, dispersion, diversion, immersion, incursion, inversion, perversion, reversion, submersion, subversion;