1
as in tour
a short trip for pleasure
our weekend excursions have encompassed virtually all parts of our home state
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2
as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
the professor's frequent and sometimes far-ranging excursions in his lectures are the stuff of campus legend
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Recent Examples of excursion
And Hansen was a member of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO 19, excursion, spending a week in an underwater habitat near Key Largo, Florida.
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Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
TripAdvisor’s faster-growing businesses are its online excursions marketplace Viator and its dining reservation platform TheFork.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
For those in search of Iceland’s natural wonders, this home is expertly located for excursions inland and all along the Southern shore.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 26 Mar. 2026
An excursion would be a walk in the park, which this definitely is not.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
TripAdvisor’s faster-growing businesses are its online excursions marketplace Viator and its dining reservation platform TheFork.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
For those in search of Iceland’s natural wonders, this home is expertly located for excursions inland and all along the Southern shore.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 26 Mar. 2026
An excursion would be a walk in the park, which this definitely is not.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excursion
Noun
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In July 2024, a tour helicopter crashed on Kauai, killing the pilot and two passengers.—
JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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TourScoop coversguided group tours and tour operators,tour operator reviews,tour itinerary reviews andtravel gear recommendations.—
Carly Neil,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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June 21 – July 22 Wandering down conversational tangents will be especially tempting today.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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The original investigation spawned two main tangents involving Becciu, once a leading Vatican cardinal and future papal contender.—
NICOLE WINFIELD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Perez went on to sign with Interscope in 2022, opening for Coldplay on their Music of the Spheres tour and Noah Cyrus on her Hardest Part jaunt.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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If the album positions them in the lineage of sometime tourmates Modest Mouse and the Flaming Lips, Something Worth Waiting For sounds less like a swing for the big time than a merry jaunt into its general vicinity, happy to pick up any alt-rock lifers who’ll come.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
23 Mar. 2026
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While no moon landing is in store for the mission, the crew will test systems and hardware for future expeditions to the surface while traveling up to 6,000 miles beyond the far side of the moon – the farthest humans have ever ventured in space.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Sediment samples near the torpedo compartment showed no evidence of plutonium leakage from the nuclear warheads, indicating titanium patches applied by Soviet and Russian expeditions in 1994 remain effective.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher made his return to the pitcher's mound in his first Major League outing since his infant daughter died just five days after she was born.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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But the left-hander still had a fine outing, minimizing damage and keeping his team in the game.—
Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Excursion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excursion. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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