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• n  a journey taken for pleasure
  many summer excursions to the shore
• n  wandering from the main path of a journey

• These excursions range from easy hikes to demanding climbs to rafting trips, and accommodation includes separate dining, bathing and "living room" tents.
• The Boston Maine Railroad will provide excursions from Boston to North Conway and Fryeburg.
• With its fractured account of junkies and assorted urban desperadoes, its fang-baring humor and its sudden excursions into sheer hallucination, it instantly made him the depraved .

• jaunt
• outing
• junket
• pleasure trip
• expedition
• sashay
• digression

News & Articles

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• Win a Wine Country Staycation Excursion!
  Win a Wine Country Staycation Excursion!
  June 26, 2013 - North Bay Bohemian
• Concert preview: Nude Beach brings summery power-pop jangle to Ace of Cups
  Because Elvis Costello stays busy making adult contemporary records these days, we need Nude Beach to make new Elvis Costello records. Fortunately, the Brooklyn combo was up to the task with II. Those mourning Tom Petty’s recent blues-rock excursion might also find solace, as will anybody who can namedrop 10 power-pop bands The Exploding Hearts cribbed from but never got to see them in concert.
  June 26, 2013 - Columbus Alive
• Ludington among the stops on Great Lakes lighthouses tour
  The 110-foot Keweenaw Star, loaded with more than 40 passengers and crew, entered the Ludington harbor Monday on the first leg of a five-day excursion on Lake Michigan.
  June 26, 2013 - Ludington Daily News

Quotes

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• Brad Mills in Houston Chronicle
  He's been a professional in how he's handled this little excursion of losing some playing time,manager Brad Mills said. "That's just the type of guy he is, and any time a guy like that contributes, you're thrilled for him, and you want to...
• Dmitry Medvedev in BusinessWeek
  My goal is not just to see what it is like, this not an excursion,Medvedev told Schwarzenegger in San Francisco. "I would like that as a result of this trip we start full-fledged relations that will lead to establishing powerful...
• Paul de Jersey in Brisbane Times
  Chief Justice Paul de Jersey said today he understood Justice Dutney died "during the course of a bicycle riding excursion" in South Australia.