excursion

Meanings

Noun

• A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
• A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
• An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usally during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
• A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

Verb

• To go on a recreational trip or excursion.

Related

Similar words

• journey, trip
• digression, excursus

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin excursio ("a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech"), from excurrere, from ex + currere.