Synonyms:
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure_trip, expedition, sashay
Meaning: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
Usage examples
All three were bubbling over with glee at the prospect of an outing this bright June afternoon upon the river Thames.
A hundred miles on the river was a great outing for this village lad; nine hundred was rather beyond his comprehension, although he finally compromised by "allowing" that we might be going as far as Cincinnati.
The other is like a man who has planned an outing for the next day which continuing rain will frustrate. He cannot, to be sure, by his present reactions affect to-morrow's weather, but he may take some steps which will influence future happenings, if only to postpone the proposed picnic.