excursion
/ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/ noun B2- A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way. · While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
- A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
- Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern · After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.
Plural excursions
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“Yes; I have just made a little excursion to the Borromean Islands.”
It was late that night when Holmes returned from his solitary excursion.
It was nearly one o’clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion.
Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France may perchance have noticed, about midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde,—a little nearer to the former than to the latter,—a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping in the wind, a sheet of tin covered with a grotesque representation of the Pont du Gard.
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