Adventure vs. Excursion — What's the Difference?

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically bold, sometimes risky or undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.

An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.

An unusual and exciting or daring experience

A usually short journey made for pleasure; an outing.

Engage in daring or risky activity

A roundtrip in a passenger vehicle at a special low fare.

An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.

A group taking a short pleasure trip together.

An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.

A diversion or deviation from a main topic; a digression.

An unusual or exciting experience

A movement from and back to a mean position or axis in an oscillating or alternating motion.

Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences

The distance traversed in such a movement.

A financial speculation or business venture.

A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

To venture upon; undertake or try

A wandering from the main subject: a digression.

To expose to danger or risk

(aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usally during takeoff, landing, or taxi.

To proceed despite risks

(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

To take a risk; dare

(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.

The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

A wandering from a subject; digression.

(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.

A journey taken for pleasure;

(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

Wandering from the main path of a journey

(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.

(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.

To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

Risk; danger; peril.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;

Put at risk;