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US
/ɪkˈskɝʒən/
]
[ UK /ɛkskˈɜːʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɛkskˈɜːʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a journey taken for pleasure
it was merely a pleasure trip
many summer excursions to the shore
after cautious sashays into the field - wandering from the main path of a journey
How To Use excursion In A Sentence
- In Bermuda, Sam's father took him on an excursion to a coral barrier.
- The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
- After a brief excursion into drama, he concentrated on his main interest, which was poetry.
- Plans include occasional stops at Central Terminal, which saw its last passenger train in 1979, and special excursions through the region to destinations such as Niagara Falls, Medina, Jamestown and even Cleveland. The Buffalo News: Home
- Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
- There are many things to do on the North Island, but we wanted to get to the south as quickly as possible. Our only major excursion in the North was a day's canyoning in the Piha Canyon just outside Auckland.
- Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
- All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York. Ulysses
- He had packed for camping trips and other short excursions before, but he didn't know how long he would have to stay out of town.
- There are numerous excursions in scientific realms of chemistry, biology, meteorology, computer science, and most of all mathematics and philosophy.