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Definition
a short journey taken for pleasureor:
a digression from the main path of a journey
- We booked excursions at every port where our cruise ship stopped.
excursions = short journeys taken for pleasure
- many summer excursions to the shore
- Every seat was crowded, too; for it was Sunday, and consequently everybody was taking a "pleasure" excursion.Mark Twain -- A Tramp Abroad
- Being now destitute of provisions, the travellers found it necessary to make a short hunting excursion after buffalo.Washington Irving -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
- When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- He made a brief excursion up the Bill Williams River, a tributary of the Colorado, then continued downstream through the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- At the mention of an excursion, the four children were wild with delight, and, capering around me, clapped their hands for joy.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- I supposed they had not come from the south, in the winter, for a pleasure excursion; and now the nature of their business was very plain.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- When she died I was able to physically leave the place I'd been making little mind excursions from ever since I learned to read.Kaye Gibbons -- My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves
- Attolia responded with invitations to musicals and dancing and excursions into the countryside.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- 50 each way, cheaper if I could run into an excursion rate out of Washington.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
- A party, of which he formed one, landed at Borneo, and passed into the interior on an excursion of pleasure.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- In the back of the Excursion, I could feel my heart beating.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- This little dog lived in their shed, sleeping beside Karataev at night; it sometimes made excursions into the town but always returned again.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Then she said suddenly: "O, Mr. Conroy, will you come for an excursion to the Aran Isles this summer?James Joyce -- Dubliners
- When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- I would spend the following day going through all the paperwork and canceling every trip, every excursion I had booked.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- She has now run away from three foster families in three months and obviously risks coming to some harm during her excursions.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- After their little excursion to Tuck's, Abee realized he was starving.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
excursions = side trips taken for pleasure
excursion = side trip
excursions = temporary side-trips taken from the path of the main journey
excursion = a short journey