Travel vocabulary

 

Travel vocabulary

Excursion (noun)

UK  /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/ 

 

a short journey usually made for pleasure, often by a group of people:

This year's annual excursion will be to Lincoln.

Next week we're going on an excursion

 

travel

verb

to make a journey, usually over a long distance

to go from one place to another on a trip, usually over a long distance:

 

Between school and university, she spent a year travelling, mostly in Africa and Asia.

He travelled over 1,000 miles to be at the wedding.

As a young man he had travelled (= been to many parts of) the world.

 

 

travel

noun (countable)

the activity of traveling, usually over a long distance:

 

[ U ] A lot of my travel is business related.

[ pl ] I’ve met some pretty interesting people in my travels (= trips).

 

travel light

 

to make a journey without taking a lot of heavy things with you:

I always try to travel light.

 

journey

noun [ C ]

UK /ˈdʒɜː.ni/ 

the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle:

I love going on long journeys.

UK It's a two-hour train journey from York to London.

 

trip

noun 

a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again:

The trip from York to Newcastle takes about an hour by train.

We're going on a trip to Norway this summer.

 

 

voyage

noun 

UK /ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/ 

 

a long journey, especially by sea:

He was a young sailor on his first sea voyage.