Excursion

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Break while visiting a kindergarten
Drink at a club outing (1888)

The trip (of "fly out"; formerly evasion ) is a term with which a change of position by the driving purpose of recreation and leisure activities is connected.

etymology

The Middle High German name ūzfluc (or ûʒvluc ) described the "first excursion of the young birds and bees". It is thus borrowed from the bird or insect world .

The term excursion was then proposed as German translation for the word excursion by Philipp von Zesen in the 17th century and was also used for this purpose in the 18th century.

Type and duration

Excursion refers to a short journey , a drive , a short hike or a longer walk , which is often undertaken in a group such as a family , school class or club and as a so-called trip into the blue or country trip . An excursion on horseback is called a ride . Alternatively, the terms short trip , short trip , short trip , day out , day trip or jaunt be used.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: excursion  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duden 7, dictionary of origin , Mannheim 1963, ISBN 3-411-00907-1 , p. 177
  2. ↑ Zeno.org, article excursion
  3. ^ Peter Ernst: German history of language: an introduction to the diachronic linguistics of German . In: UTB Uni-Taschenbücher . tape 2583 . WUV, 2005, ISBN 3-8252-2583-6 , ISSN  0340-7225 , p. 187 (254 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Knaur Lexigraphisches Institut München (Ed.), Das deutsche Wörterbuch , 1985, p. 161
  5. ^ Deutsche Welle: Keyword Landpartie . August 3, 2009