journey

journey, voyage, tour, trip, jaunt, excursion, cruise, expedition, pilgrimage mean travel or a passage from one place to another.

Journey, the most comprehensive term in general use, carries no particular implications of the distance, duration, destination, purpose, or mode of transportation involved

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plans a journey to California

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wished him a happy journey home

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the journey to Italy will not take more than two months

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a journey of twenty-five miles in Britain will often afford . . . much variety of scenery— Stamp

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the sound film took four years to make the journey from Hollywood to Rome— Jarratt

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Voyage normally implies a journey of some length over water, especially a sea or ocean

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with a fair sea voyage, and a fair land journey, you will be soon at his dear side— Dickens

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Gordon made the voyage from San Francisco around the Horn on a big full-rigged Glasgow sailing ship— Current Biog.

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but sometimes it may indicate a journey through air or space

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through the long 109-day, 180,000,000 mile voyage, Mariner was precisely controlled— Christian Science Monitor

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Tour applies to a somewhat circular journey from place to place that ends when one reaches one's starting point

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set out on a walking tour

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tour of Western Europe

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penologists made a tour of all the prisons in the state

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my next design was to make a tour round the island— Defoe

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left in September for a seven-week goodwill tour of northern and western Europe— Current Biog.

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Trip is the preferable word when referring to a relatively short journey, especially one for business or pleasure

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his new position requires frequent trips to New York

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the English came over in droves on the day trips—A. V. Davis

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surveys revealed that 59 percent of city-driver trips . . . were made for purposes of making a living— Americana Annual

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The term is also used in place of journey to refer to more extensive travels

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Conclusions I had reached on my trip around the world— Willkie

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a trip through western Pennsylvania, then down the Ohio— L. M. Sears

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Jaunt carries a stronger implication of casualness and informality than any of the others and is especially applicable to a short trip away from one's home or one's business, usually for pleasure or recreation

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they are off for a day's jaunt

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a jaunt to the shore or the hills— F. L. Allen

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lip service is paid ... to the idea of Congressional travel but the general tone throughout runs: They're off again on their jaunts at public expense— H. A. Williams

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Excursion applies to a brief pleasure trip, usually no more than a day in length

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the rural neighborhood of Sneyd, where they had been making an afternoon excursion— Bennett

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Excursion is the preferred term, especially in railroad and steamship use, for a round trip at reduced rates to a point of interest (as a resort or an exposition or a metropolis)

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the Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Ry. runs excursions to Bush Lake on tournament days— Amer. Guide Series: Minn.

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When the excursion involves a voyage of some days or weeks and, often, a sight-seeing tour with frequent stops during which the participants use the ship as their living quarters, cruise is the usual term

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a Mediterranean cruise

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the steamship lines are featuring winter cruises through the Caribbean Sea

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their yacht is off with a party on a cruise

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Expedition applies to a journey intended to further a definite purpose

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he called this trip frankly a begging expedition— Cather

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he made a special expedition to the city to try to straighten out the difficulty

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had charge of the expedition to observe the transit of Venus in China— Rufus

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an archaeological expedition

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Pilgrimage applies primarily to an expedition to a place hallowed by religious associations but is sometimes applied also to a journey to a place of historical or sentimental association

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Arabs make pilgrimages to worship at his tomb— Hichens

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an excited conference at Niagara Falls in 1905 and the fervid pilgrimage to Harpers Ferry ... were tokens of the Negroes' obdurate consciousness of their identity— Handlin

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Often it implies an arduous journey or slow and difficult passage

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories told by men and women on a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury

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