# excursion

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/ · frequency rank #18,818

## Definitions
1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
2. A field trip.
3. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
4. An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
5. A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **expulsion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excursion-vs-expulsion)
- **excision** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excision-vs-excursion)
- **exclusion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exclusion-vs-excursion)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ecxursion`, `exccursion`, `excrusion`, `excurison`, `excurrsion`, `excursino`, `excursionn`, `excursoin`, `excurssion`, `excurtion`, `excusrion`, `exucrsion`, `exxcursion`, `xecursion`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/excursion