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a trip with the audacity to call itself temporary before it changes everything.
means a short journey or outing, especially one taken for pleasure or a specific purpose, with the expectation of returning.
from From Latin 'excursio,' meaning 'a running out, a sally, a sortie' — built from 'ex-' (out) plus 'currere' (to run), the same root that gives us 'current,' 'course,' and 'cursor.' Its earliest sense was almost military: a brief raid, a darting forth from the main body and back again. The leisurely day-trip meaning came later, but the bones of the word still remember running out and coming home.
- latin root
- From excurrere, meaning to run out and away
- victorian craze
- Cheap rail excursions invented mass tourism in 1841
- math meaning
- A path that wanders off then returns home
- reading detour
- Any topic-jumping aside is an excursus
grand canyon mule trips — multi-day guided excursions down to the colorado river, operating since the early 1900s
galapagos naturalist cruises — organized excursions visiting multiple islands to observe endemic species like darwin's finches and giant tortoises