excursion

n.

1. A usually short journey made for pleasure; an outing.
2. A roundtrip on a passenger vehicle at a special low fare.
3. A group taking a short pleasure trip together.
4. A diversion or deviation from a main topic; a digression.
5. Physics.
   1. A movement from and back to a mean position or axis in an oscillating or alternating motion.
   2. The distance traversed in such a movement.

[Latin excursiō, excursiōn-, from excursus, past participle of excurrere, to run out : ex-, ex- + currere, to run.]

noun

1. A usually short journey taken for pleasure: jaunt, junket, outing, trip. See move/halt.
2. An instance of digressing: aside, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See approach/retreat.

n

A trip; movement from a mean position.

A range of movement regularly repeated in performance of a function, e.g. excursion of the jaws in mastication.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - udflugt, ekskurs, afvigelse, udfald

Nederlands (Dutch)
excursie, uitweiding, dwaling van normaal pad, een cyclus van de longbeweging

Français (French)
n. - excursion, balade, randonnée, (fig) digression

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ausflug, Exkurs

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εκδρομή, εξόρμηση

Italiano (Italian)
escursione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - excursão (f), desvio (m)

Русский (Russian)
экскурсия, поездка, экскурс, отступление

Español (Spanish)
n. - excursión

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - utflykt, exkursion

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
远足, 短程旅行, 游览

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 遠足, 短程旅行, 遊覽

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 소풍, 여행 단체, 탈선, 습격

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 遠足, 周遊旅行, 脱線

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) رحله بسعر منخفض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮טיול קצר, חריגה, סטיה‬

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Ford Excursion	garmont excursion
diesel excursion	ford excursion