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# excursion

«excursion» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short trip, often with a group, to visit a place for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an excursion, excursions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An excursion is a short trip, often with a group, to visit a place for fun or to learn, and then come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#m1)

2) (Australia, NZ) An excursion is a school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school life: a class excursion to a museum, zoo or farm (the usual Australian word; in the UK "school trip", in the US "field trip"). In maths problems: the cost of an excursion per pupil, number of buses or seats needed. Phrases: go on an excursion, class excursion, a day excursion, excursion to.

### examples

- Our class went on an excursion to the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x1)
- The excursion costs 15 dollars per child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x2)
- We need two buses for the excursion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x3)
- Bring a packed lunch on the excursion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x4)
- The cruise ship stopped for an afternoon excursion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x5)
- The excursion to the beach was cancelled because of rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x6)
- They were students, on a boating excursion, and wanted to get something to eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/#x7)

### note

Countable: an excursion (vowel sound, so "an"). In maths: total cost = number of pupils × price; buses needed = pupils ÷ seats per bus, rounded up.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «excursion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excursion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.