Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun excursion
2 senses of excursion
Sense 1
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay -- (a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field")
=> journey, journeying -- (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Sense 2
digression, excursion -- (wandering from the main path of a journey)
=> journey, journeying -- (the act of traveling from one place to another)