trip(JOURNEY)
 excursion into something
a short involvement in a new activity: （短暂）涉猎；（短期）涉足
A teacher by profession, this is her first excursion into writing.她的职业是教师，这是她首次涉足文学创作。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Journeys
adventure
break-journey
carpool
carpooling
circumnavigation
commuting
expedition
field trip
grand tour
jaunt
junket
layover
move
odyssey
ride
round trip
sail
seafaring
trip
wanderings

excursion | American Dictionary

excursion
noun[ C ]
us/ɪkˈskɜr·ʒən/
a short trip usually made for pleasure, often by a group of people:
My class is going on an excursion to Niagara Falls.

Examples of excursion

excursion
There have been many such, mostly quantitative with occasional excursions into qualitative or pitch-based scansion.
While in the other phase, the orbit makes large, seemingly chaotic excursions away from the periodic region.
A t each station, while the average values may not be large, the uv signal shows large excursions.
Here we have 28 excursions, each meticulously documented in terms of access, a route, and key sites to be investigated on the way.
Each section contains an introduction, an account of a performance, ten chorographic texts or excursions, and a proposal for a speculative site-based performance.
Then the entire family spent the next several weeks making daily excursions to oversee the work.
Doing this, however, requires some excursions deep into metaphysics.
What follows is a sketch of the earliest settings in which this group of children began negotiating excursions into group improvisation.
Such perturbations are commonly manifested in the form of positive isotopic excursions in both inorganic and organic carbon, by up to 2.5 and 6 respectively.
We further argue that the carbon isotope excursions can be correlated with identified biotic changes.
The shock exhibits meandering oscillations with maximum excursions of about 0.10 about its mean location.
Indeed, his awareness leads him to repeated methodological excursions and cautionary interventions in his biography's narrative momentum, and it makes for some bumpy reading.
Later in the year, as the ice began to break up, excursions were made by boat.
However, any sensitivity excursions were small, on the order of several tenths of a log unit at most.
The reason is that absorption of alleles might be a slow process with rare large random excursions of the optimum.
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