{{short description|Trip, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes}} {{Other uses}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2022}} [[Image:Excursion on the SLS&E RR (c 1887), 1201, 1202.jpg|thumb|upright|250px|An excursion outside Seattle, circa 1887]] thumb|Early Advantage Montessori School children on excursion
An '''excursion''' is a trip, usually made for leisure, education, or physical 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 trips. 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 * Field trip * Picnic * Escorted tour
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