# Excursion

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{{short description|Trip, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes}}
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[[Image:Excursion on the SLS&E RR (c 1887), 1201, 1202.jpg|thumb|upright|250px|An excursion outside [Seattle](/source/Seattle), circa 1887]]
thumb|Early Advantage Montessori School children on excursion

An '''excursion''' is a trip, usually made for [leisure](/source/leisure), [education](/source/education), or [physical](/source/Physical_exercise) purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.

Short excursions for education or for observations of natural phenomena are called [field trip](/source/field_trip)s. One-day educational field studies are often made by classes as extracurricular exercises, for example, to visit a natural or geographical feature. 

An obsolete usage of term was also used for raids - short military movements into foreign territory, without a formal announcement of war.<ref>[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/excursion Collins Dictionary]</ref>

== See also ==
* [Business trip](/source/Business_trip)
* [Field trip](/source/Field_trip)
* [Picnic](/source/Picnic)
* [Escorted tour](/source/Escorted_tour)

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