A summer excursion, festivity, or occasion for revelry. Frequently in plural. Now historical and rare.

transferred. An expedition or excursion into the country; a summer's trip or sojourn.

†(a) see quot. 1610; also applied to Monday (see Dekker Shoemakers Holiday iii. i); (b) used jocularly (after the title of Dekker's play, 1600)…

The action or practice of going on a maroon party (see maroon, n.2 2). Chiefly attributive in marooning party, marooning season.

Chiefly U.S. regional (southern) and Caribbean. In full maroon party (also †maroon frolic). An extended camping, hunting, or fishing trip in the…

Originally: a feast, a banquet; a festive gathering or celebration. Later more usually: an excursion or pleasure trip in which eating and drinking…

(a) a track laid with straw on which horses are exercised in winter; (b) U.S. ‘a pleasure-ride in the country, taken in a long wagon or sleigh…

An encamping; a ‘camping out’.

(See quots.).

an organized pleasure trip whose destination is kept secret from the passengers; also in extended use.

= mystery tour n.

Originally: a type of day-return rail ticket for off-peak leisure travel. Hence: a one-day excursion, a day trip.

Philippine English. A night out with friends.