Associations to the word «Excursion»

Wiktionary

EXCURSION, noun. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
EXCURSION STEAMER, noun. A steamboat used to take people on coastal, lake or river pleasure-trips.

Dictionary definition

EXCURSION, noun. A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field".
EXCURSION, noun. Wandering from the main path of a journey.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope