excursions

Noun

excursion (plural excursions)

1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
   • While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.

   Synonyms:

   journey, trip, jaunt

2. (Australia) A field trip.
3. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
   • Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

   Synonyms:

   digression, excursus

4. An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
5. A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
6. Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
   • After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.

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