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A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
- While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
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A field trip.Australia
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A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
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An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
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A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
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Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
- After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.
ant. incursion