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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These reviews detail the personal experience of the writer in relation to the ship’s food and drink, spa offerings, onboard activities and entertainment, the itinerary, shore excursions, the experience for families, and the ship’s sustainability initiatives.
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Condé Nast, cntraveler.com, 30 Dec. 2025
On an excursion into the high Rocky Mountains when the four of us were all teenagers, Kenny, Vern, Normy, and I were caught in a summer blizzard.
—Patrick F. McManus, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2025
The new first-of-its-kind attraction coming to Dollywood will take riders into the Smoky Mountains on a soaring nighttime flight that turns into a roller coaster ride and then a whitewater rafting excursion before concluding with a mysterious dark ride across a shimmering lake.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 22 Dec. 2025
Dressing, then, becomes a series of tiny risks and excursions, experiments in otherness.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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Condé Nast, cntraveler.com, 30 Dec. 2025
On an excursion into the high Rocky Mountains when the four of us were all teenagers, Kenny, Vern, Normy, and I were caught in a summer blizzard.
—Patrick F. McManus, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2025
The new first-of-its-kind attraction coming to Dollywood will take riders into the Smoky Mountains on a soaring nighttime flight that turns into a roller coaster ride and then a whitewater rafting excursion before concluding with a mysterious dark ride across a shimmering lake.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 22 Dec. 2025
Dressing, then, becomes a series of tiny risks and excursions, experiments in otherness.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excursion
Noun
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Belau is the founder of Girls’ Guide to the World, a tour company that arranges roughly 80 international group trips a year primarily for Americans as well as travelers from other English-speaking countries.—
Terry Ward,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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Set in British Columbia and tied for the top national park in Canada, Gulf Islands National Park Reserve is coastal paradise made up of more than 30 islands and islets complete with coves, beaches, and trails, according to the report from tour operator Journeyscape.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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This tangent line is called the Lie algebra.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Dec. 2025
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While O’Farrell spends story real estate on imagining how the plague germs traveled the Mediterranean into Warwickshire and Zhao smartly cuts that tangent, maybe the biggest omission is one O’Farrell also doesn’t directly show in the novel either.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Nov. 2025
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Day trips to Amalfi-style Taormina are well-advised for those who have yet to gawp at its clifftop panoramas across the Mediterranean or its film star hotels, as are jaunts to the rambling flea markets and splendidly scruffy trattorias of nearby Catania.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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Even as the gnarled guitar of their early EPs gave way to the jangly jaunts of 2022’s Stumpwork, the band could feel secure in the knowledge that any song featuring Shaw on vocals will sound like a Dry Cleaning song and nothing but.—
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
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Marco Calò, professor in the UNAM's Geophysics Institute's vulcanology department and the project leader, invited The Associated Press to accompany the team on its most recent expedition, the last before its research on the volcano will be published.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Wright has played at least one game with eight teams since making his NFL debut by appearing in three outings with Pittsburgh in 2020.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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Still, fans began speculating that the group included fellow celebrity moms Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, all of whom Tisdale had spent significant time with before their last documented outing together in December 2024, per Page Six.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Excursion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excursion. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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