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Definition of Excursion
Excursion

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

A wandering from a subject; digression.

Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

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Excursion Quotations

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Franz Grillparzer

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.
Charles Sturt

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty

Excursion Translations

excursion in Afrikaans is uitstappie
excursion in Dutch is uitstapje, toer, tocht, trip, excursie
excursion in French is excursion
excursion in German is Auslenkung {f}, Abweichung {f}
excursion in Italian is escursione
excursion in Norwegian is utflukt, utflukt
excursion in Swedish is utflykt


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