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In Latin, the prefix ex- means "out of" and the verb currere means "to run." When the two are put together, they form the verb excurrere , literally "to run out" or "to extend." Excurrere gave rise not only to excursion but also to excurrent (an adjective for things having channels or currents that run outward) and excursus (meaning "an appendix or digression that contains further exposition of some point or topic"). Other words deriving from currere include corridor , curriculum , and among newer words, parkour .

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Latin excursion-, excursio , from excurrere

circa 1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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from Latin excursio, excursion- "a going out," from excurrere "to run out, make an excursion, extend," from ex- "out, forth" and currere "to run" — related to current

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Definition of excursion noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• on an excursion They've gone on an excursion to York.
• There are regular weekend excursions throughout the summer.
• a business trip
• a five-minute trip by taxi
• a long and difficult journey across the mountains
• a tour of Bavaria
• the first expedition to the South Pole
• We went on an all-day excursion to the island.
• The children were on a day’s outing from school.
• We had a day out at the beach.
• a(n) foreign/​overseas trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition
• a bus/​coach/​train/​rail trip/​journey/​tour
• to go on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion/​outing/​day out
• to set out/​off on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
• to make a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
• destination
• Our ship offers 13 different excursions.
• Princess Tours runs independent excursions from selected hotels.
• We decided to make an all-day excursion to the island.
• We signed up for a shore excursion to New Orleans.
• Optional excursions include a tour of the ancient city and a day's horse-riding.
• take (somebody on)
• excursion into
• excursion to

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• American English : excursion / ɪkˈskɜrʒən /
• Brazilian Portuguese : excursão
• Chinese : 短途旅行
• European Spanish : excursión
• French : excursion
• German : Ausflug
• Italian : escursione
• Japanese : 小旅行
• Korean : 짧은 여행
• European Portuguese : excursão
• Spanish : excursión
• Thai : การเที่ยวพักผ่อนหย่อนใจ, การเที่ยวช่วงสั้นๆ

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What Does Excursion Mean in Tourism?

By Alice Nichols

Have you ever heard the term “excursion” in the context of tourism? If you are planning a trip or just curious to learn more about travel, it’s essential to understand what excursion means and how it can enhance your overall travel experience.

What is an excursion?

Excursion refers to a short trip or outing that is usually taken for pleasure or education. When it comes to tourism, excursions are pre-planned activities that tourists can participate in during their travels. These activities can range from sightseeing tours to outdoor adventures like hiking, rafting, or zip-lining.

Types of Excursions

There are various types of excursions that cater to different interests and preferences. Here are some popular options:

• Sightseeing Tours: These excursions involve visiting historical landmarks, museums, and other attractions in a particular destination. They provide an opportunity to learn more about the local culture and history while capturing some fantastic photos.
• Adventure Activities: For those who seek adrenaline-pumping experiences, adventure excursions like bungee jumping, paragliding, and scuba diving can be an excellent choice.
• Nature Walks: Excursions like nature walks or wildlife safaris allow tourists to explore natural landscapes and observe wildlife up close.
• Cultural Experiences: Cultural excursions like cooking classes or dance performances are an excellent way to immerse oneself in local traditions and customs.

The Benefits of Excursions

Participating in excursions has several benefits for tourists:

• Variety: Excursions provide an opportunity for travelers to engage in unique activities that they may not have access to at home.
• Convenience: Excursions are pre-planned and often include transportation, saving tourists the hassle of arranging their own logistics.
• Expertise: Many excursions are led by experienced guides who can offer valuable insights into local history and culture.
• Safety: Excursions usually have safety measures in place, making them a safer option than exploring on one’s own.
• Socialization: Excursions provide an opportunity to meet other travelers with similar interests and make new friends.

Tips for Choosing an Excursion

When choosing an excursion, keep these tips in mind:

• Consider your interests, budget, and physical abilities before booking an excursion.
• Read reviews from other travelers to ensure the excursion aligns with your expectations.
• Check if the excursion includes transportation or requires you to arrange your own transportation.
• If you have any dietary restrictions or special needs, check if the excursion can accommodate them beforehand.

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Borrowed from Latin excursio ( “ a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech ” ) , from excurrere ( “ to run out ” ) , from ex ( “ out ” ) + currere ( “ to run ” ) .

Pronunciation

• ( Received Pronunciation ) IPA ( key ) : /ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/
• ( General Australian ) IPA ( key ) : /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən , -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

excursion ( plural excursions )

• 1921 , Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest , Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company , published 1925 , →OCLC : Mother [ … ] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
• A wandering from the main subject: a digression .
• ( aviation ) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway , usually during takeoff , landing , or taxi .
• ( phonetics ) A deviation in pitch , for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech .
• ( recreational trip ) : journey , trip
• ( wandering from the main subject ) : digression , excursus

Derived terms

• alarums and excursions
• excursion fare
• excursion rate
• excursion steamer
• power excursion

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excursion ( third-person singular simple present excursions , present participle excursioning , simple past and past participle excursioned )

• 1825 , Charles Lamb , Letter to Mr. Wordsworth , 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb , Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, [1] Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters.
• 1880 , Mark Twain , chapter 49, in A Tramp Abroad ‎ [2] : After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters [ … ]
• 1942 , Emily Carr , “ Ways of Getting Round ”, in The Book of Small : Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow.

Further reading

• “ excursion ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
• “ excursion ”, in The Century Dictionary   [ … ] , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC .
• “ excursion ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .

Borrowed from Latin excursiōnem .

• IPA ( key ) : /ɛk.skyʁ.sjɔ̃/

excursion   f ( plural excursions )

• wander (talk off topic)
• “ excursion ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .

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• break-journey
• circumnavigation

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The Eagles’ long and winding road to goodbye will go through Las Vegas this fall.

The band will become the fourth act to play the snazzy Sphere when their farewell tour, The Long Goodbye , pulls into the venue for eight dates: Sept. 20-21; Sept. 27-28; Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19.

Tickets for the shows will go on sale at 1 p.m. ET June 21 at eagles.com. Tickets start at $175 (all-in pricing).

Registration for the band's presale is available now on the Eagles' site. The presale begins at 1 p.m. ET June 18, while a Live Nation presale starts at 1 p.m. ET June 20. A limited number of VIP packages will also go on sale at 1 p.m. ET June 18 on the band's website.

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The band, which kicked off its farewell tour in September, will follow rapturously received residencies by U2, who christened the venue last fall, Phish and, currently, Dead & Company .

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[ ik- skur -zh uh n , -sh uh n ]

a pleasure excursion; a scientific excursion.

weekend excursions to mountain resorts.

an excursion of tourists.

excursions into futile philosophizing.

• Physics. the displacement of a body or a point from a mean position or neutral value, as in an oscillation.
• an accidental increase in the power level of a reactor, usually forcing its emergency shutdown.
• the range of stroke of any moving part.
• the stroke itself.
• Obsolete. a sally or raid.

verb (used without object)

• to go on or take an excursion.

an excursion fare; an excursion bus.

/ -ʒən; ɪkˈskɜːʃən /

• a short outward and return journey, esp for relaxation, sightseeing, etc; outing
• a group of people going on such a journey

an excursion ticket

an excursion into politics

• (formerly) a raid or attack
• a movement from an equilibrium position, as in an oscillation
• the magnitude of this displacement
• the normal movement of a movable bodily organ or part from its resting position, such as the lateral movement of the lower jaw
• machinery the locus of a point on a moving part, esp the deflection of a whirling shaft

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It is disappointing and, frankly, frightening that Thompson walked away from his repugnant Sea World excursion scot-free.

Several events specifically cater to kids, making this a fun excursion for the whole family.

I learned a lot about myself on that excursion, and from the trip as a whole.

There was, instead, a nauseating excursion into base and sad fantasies.

While a two-day feeding frenzy makes for a fun excursion, the human body is only capable of so much consumption.

Out gets Uncle David, looking brown and healthy after his northern excursion.

The other day an excursion was arranged to Sondershausen, a town about three hours' ride from Weimar in the cars.

We got back to Weimar about eight in the evening, and this delicious excursion, like all others, had to end.

To my friends ever since I have not failed to recommend the passage of the Butterley tunnel as a desirable pleasure excursion.

From childhood I had longed to see something of the world, and this excursion to Paris was the first gratification of that wish.

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So now that OTAs and mandatory minicamp have wrapped up, the players have a long break before training camp begins. And based on Brittany Mahomes' latest Instagram story, fans have started to speculate that the couple might be embarking on a trip overseas. 

It's possible Brittany Mahomes might be planning to link up with her new friend. 

Taylor Swift is current performing her Eras Tour in London, England. And Brittany posted, saying "Ask me how packing for a 4 week trip is going...".

So could she be heading to London with her husband to take in a show? And maybe Travis Kelce will be joining them. 

I mean, it would make sense considering Patrick Mahomes took credit for Kelce and Swift's relationship. 

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"I'd like to take some of the credit. I was the one who invited Travis to the first Taylor concert when the friendship bracelet was--he was sitting in my suite, so I feel like I was the matchmaker," Mahomes said. "I had some input in there as well, I was like, 'Dude, just go for it. Just go for it.' And you know Travis, man, he does it. He's a great dude and I'm glad it's all worked out for the best."

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And I don’t want to just be like, “One hour, super hits — bye!” I want to be able to play my work, because I think that the people that are coming to see me know the hits and they know other stuff that they want to hear. Because they wrote me [with requests]. It’s a lot of stuff! I can only do this amount. But I want to do some visuals … I mean, I’m not gonna have pyro and it’s not a Cecil B. DeMille production, but I’m excited about it.

Putting the term “farewell tour” on it, do you feel comfortable with that? Because obviously people can look at you now and think that you’re beautiful and full of energy and still in the prime of life as a performer.

Yeah. But so what? I’d rather let them remember me like this. I’m not gonna be like with a walker, like, “Okay, girls!”… [She mimes slowly pushing herself on stage.] I’m not gonna do that. And I’m tired. I want to be able to do something and do it well and say, “Hey, I love all of you.” I’m going to do North America, I am going to do Europe, I’m going to do Asia, I’m gonna do Australia and New Zealand and stuff, I’m going to go to South America. And then I’m gonna say, “Bye! That’s it.”

Do you think that will be it for you doing concerts? Or could you do a residency, or one-offs?

No, I’m sure I’ll do a concert, but I’m not gonna do the big blowout thing. This is it . But I’m excited, because this way it’s a nice present for them, you know?

And do you think your focus is going to go strictly toward theater work after this, or will you still be recording?

I’m finishing “Working Girl,” definitely doing theater. I don’t know what I’ll do. I think now, after I do this, I can do anything, and why not? You know, I always wanted to do something with (Boy) George before we were too old and gray . I love my Georgie, so I want to do something with him.

How is “Working Girl” coming along?

Oh, it’s going well. I really feel like we’re a team, so that’s what makes it great. Theresa Rebeck is the writer, and she’s wonderful. We have Chris Ashley, the director, and I got Stephen Oremus again that I worked with on “Kinky Boots” as our orchestrator. He’s so talented, it’s sickening. And I’m writing with Rob Hyman, who I wrote “Time After Time” with, because it’s set in the ‘80s, so it’s gotta sound ‘80s. We were the ‘80s for a minute, you know? It’s kind of like we were the world, but now we’re not. [Laughs.]

There has been a lot of celebration of you in connection with “Let the Canary Sing.” How did it feel having a handprint ceremony at the Chinese Theatre?

And Cher was standing next to me at the ceremony. I love Cher. And she’s finally going in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I don’t know what the hell they were waiting for. She was always a rocker. She married a rocker; they were kind of a rock ‘n’ roll couple. Like, what the heck? So, I’m happy for her because she needs acknowledgement. I would also like to see Diana Ross’s hands in the cement.

Let’s discuss the documentary. You had some reluctance about doing it early on, didn’t you?

I’m very proud of what she did. She’s a filmmaker, and I wanted a film, not just a TV gossippy thing. I was hoping that she would make a real film, and I think she did. The only thing is, I was in it — it was me. But it’s still interesting. It tells a story. … And I didn’t want to be like Saint Cyndi. I’m not perfect. I say the wrong things sometimes, and I keep trying to be a good leader and I’m still learning.

Didn’t you also have some reticence about the title of the movie?

She wanted to call it “Let the Canary Sing.” Fine; I understand what that was about. But it’s a long, long story to get into on Jimmy Kimmel. It’s not a short story.

But people want to hear you tell it. It’s worth it to get to the punchline that became the title.

That manager, Steve Massarsky [Lauper’s rep in the early ‘80s, from whom she was trying to separate], was just about (saying) “No.” I was like, “Listen, if we give you a sunset (clause), you’ll make money, but let us move forward and make money.” And he wasn’t having it. If we were going to do it without him, he wanted to see us all never do it. And I would always think to myself: “Did I not bring you over to my family’s house? Did you not see that I am a Sicilian Italian American? Do you not know those kind of women?” [Laughs.] I tried to reason and then I had to go to court. He was fighting me going bankrupt, because once I went bankrupt, there was nothing for him to take. So in court, finally the judge just looked at us, took his gavel and said, “Let the canary sing.”

There had been a VH1 “Behind the Music” special on you back in the day, right?

Yeah, I remember I saw a VH1 thing one time with me talking around 2002, and you know, there were a lot of execs. It was so male-dominated. And one of them actually said, “I can’t sign her because she’s old…” How old was I? I was only a year older than him. So if you are that concerned, what are you doing in the music business? You’re too old, right? That’s bullshit. I think that they have different rules for women. I say crash through the ceiling. It’s only glass! And there are many women in this world, and we are going to just keep coming until we get equality.

The only problem with the movie is it could stand to be a half-hour longer.

Really? Because (on the first viewing) I kept thinking, oh my God, how long is this? … But I kept watching because I was wanting to see my family again, because it was my grandmother; my great aunt Stella, who came from Italy; Aunt May, who was in the “She-Bop” video… I had all my aunts in the “She-Bop” video. That was pretty funny. They had no idea.

You say in the documentary they had no idea “She Bop” was about masturbation, despite co-starring in your video. How much later did they find out?

No, I never discussed it with (the aunts), but my mother, I discussed it with. She said [gasping], “Really? Oh my God , Cyndi.”

The documentary may be valuable maybe for younger people who didn’t live through that period who don’t know what was kind of revolutionary about you.

Oh, everything. And I scared a lot of people.

It feels like sometimes people talk like Madonna was the first pop star to do anything that shocked anybody or was revolutionary or feminist, and yet you really preceded her, with some particularly trailblazing elements.

When Madonna did “Like a Virgin” on MTV and she took the microphone and was doing some things with it, I was sitting next to my mother. And I was laughing because I thought, “Oh my God, you go girl.” And Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, they wrote that one too [as well as Lauper’s “True Colors”]. And they were thinking, “Oh no, it’s never going to be a hit now.” But it was. I mean, it’s an undeniable track, that “Like a Virgin,” undeniable. But you know, they always compared us. It’s like apples and oranges. I don’t want to play that game. I’m not doing it. I didn’t.

Do you feel like the documentary corrects anything that people misunderstood about you that you’ve felt over the years?

The explosion of color and just accessorizing you brought to music can’t get enough due.

I didn’t expect to change fashion. I was wearing something because I loved Screaming Mimi’s [the vintage store in New York City]. I loved the radical downtown or uptown or just radical artists’ look, which could be creative. You create what you want, right? That’s what an artist does. You know, I didn’t know it was going to affect fashion. But apparently it did. And I did feel like everybody just took everything that I did and just sucked it up and then spit it out and went on to the next, like I was nothing. And I just felt like, “Huh?”

They called my clothes and jewelry “grab-bag.” That wasn’t grab bag. I would eat peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches to buy a skirt or a top and put them together. I would go to the church ladies when they had their bazaars and buy the rhinestone necklaces, because I couldn’t afford to buy the chains when everybody was wearing them. I could afford one chain, and then I thought, if I string together the rhinestone necklaces and put ‘em above and below the chain, then it would look like it’s one thing. …. I think that anybody who is an artist and is creative, who puts shit together, puts their clothes together, they’re going to influence people and you influence each other.

I wanted to show with “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” a community like what New York is. It’s everybody — that’s what makes New York great. So many different kinds of people, not just one. And I was sick and tired of looking at MTV or anything with just one kind of people: Just white people, just Spanish people. Because that’s not how we live. We live all mixed together, and that’s what makes it fabulous. That’s what makes life full, and that’s what makes your music full too, you know?

One nice thing about the movie is that it actually talks about music, which frankly you don’t always get in a music documentary. There’s an especially interesting segment just about the long history of the evolving arrangement of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” and how you incorporated bits of reggae and Motown and a Coney Island feel into what could have been a pretty staid new-wave song. And if you don’t spend that much time perfecting that particular arrangement, your history is certainly different, and maybe pop history is also different.

So I sang with Ellie Greenwich — come on! She was one of the first female producers of pop that never even got her name on the record. She was fantastic to work with and I loved her. I got so busy with my life and my career, and that’s what sucks about the business: you are always working, and then people slip away. Especially at this age. So now I try and get ahold of them to talk to ’em. because all the people that were in that documentary, I love them dearly, and the people even that weren’t in the documentary that I worked with, I love them and feel lucky that they shared their talent with me. Because it’s always a collective. Even if you think it’s not and you’re doing it all yourself, well, good for you — I don’t live like that.

The last chapter of the movie of course focuses on your Tony-winning success with “Kinky Boots.”

You’ve got to think of how you can step around the gatekeepers. Sometimes you’ve got to just enjoy yourself and try and find another path. I didn’t have the same career… I didn’t even know what I was gonna do. But I became enamored with Harvey Fierstein and what he was talking about. He was always one of the great leaders of the LGBTQ community, and I’m a friend and family member, so everything he said made sense. … In “Kinky Boots,” you had all these different (creative) people who their whole lives were working on civil rights, and we’re all here together, and we are doing this story about a lot of different kinds of people and their arc — and how eventually, if you share your stories together, there’s not a lot of difference in human beings.

The basic common denominator of human beings is the same, whether you are a transgender person or you’re gay or you are straight or you are a blockhead — still, underneath, we’re human beings, right? I had a friend who used to say, when somebody would be cruel, “Yeah, button up your shirt, your heart’s falling out of your chest.” But you;ve gotta try and see things through your heart because that’s how things get better. And when “Kinky Boots” came around, you had all kinds of people (as characters) — you had the bully; you had the woman who’s going upwardly mobile; you had this guy who didn’t know what the hell he wanted; and you had Lola, and she just wanted to be fabulous. In the end, no matter how different they are, when you are rolling up your sleeves, working together, all of that other shit goes away. Everybody has somebody like that in their family. And what do you do? Turn your family away? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Not in my family. I’m Italian. And if you do, then disgrazia , that’s what I say.

It may be a rough year that you are bringing your tour into, for a lot of people that are sensitive to these things, given the political climate.

Fascism is what our grandparents fought against, right? And now all of a sudden we’re going right back into the fascist thing, which is not gonna be good for anybody. It never turns out well. It really doesn’t, unless you are rich, rich, rich. And I don’t think making serfs is a good idea. But then again, that’s very political. It has nothing to do with my tour. It’s just how I personally feel.

Your tour will be joyful, in what is likely to be a tense time. It can be hard to compartmentalize between wanting to celebrate and wanting to be vigilant, in times like this.

Well, I’m not going to. Listen, people need to escape from the bullshit. … But, you know, I think that if you are thinking of not voting… I will never tell you who to vote for. You know, I’ll support Biden because the alternative is not democracy. But people have got to make their choice and really research, not troll the internet with all the bullshit stories that aren’t real. … As it is now, the Supreme Court is all jacked up. You’ve got people in there who forgot that there’s separation of church and state… When Bernie Sanders said, “If you don’t vote, it’s going to affect the Supreme Court,” it did. Ooh, gosh. Hit yourself in the head! Ooh, what happened?

I don’t know about you, but I’m not comfortable with the government owning my body, telling me what I’m going to do. And there are men who get all bent out of shape because they had to get a vaccination and they don’t want to put that in their body, but you are telling women that they don’t have sovereignty over their own body, like it’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” If you are a father, do you really want your daughter to live like that? Who’s going to protect her when you are gone, if she doesn’t have civil rights and equality? You won’t be able to, unless you’re coming from the grave. … The very rich keep us divided and get you all crazy about this, while they’re underhandedly doing something on the other side. You’ve got to keep your head clear and vote every time — you have to.

I’m a big proponent of people needing hope and people have got to have redemption, and people have got to understand how they can move forward in their life creatively, happily and healthily. What else do you want? Unless you want billions of dollars to knock yourself out. I don’t. How much money do you actually need?

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN FAREWELL TOUR DATES: 

Fri Oct 18 | Montreal, QC | Bell Centre

Sun Oct 20 | Toronto, ON | Scotiabank Arena

Thu Oct 24 | Detroit, MI | Fox Theatre

Sat Oct 26 | Boston, MA | MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Sun Oct 27 | Washington, DC | Capital One Arena

Wed Oct 30 | New York, NY | Madison Square Garden

Fri Nov 01 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena

Wed Nov 06 | Tampa, FL | Amalie Arena

Fri Nov 08 | Hollywood, FL | Hard Rock Hollywood

Sun Nov 10 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena

Tue Nov 12 | Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center

Thu Nov 14 | Austin, TX | Moody Center

Sat Nov 16 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center

Tue Nov 19 | Phoenix, AZ | Footprint Center

Wed Nov 20 | San Diego, CA | Viejas Arena

Sat Nov 23 | Los Angeles, CA | Intuit Dome

Sun Nov 24 | Palm Desert, CA | Acrisure Arena

Tue Nov 26 | San Francisco, CA | Chase Center

Sat Nov 30 | Portland, OR | Moda Center

Sun Dec 01 | Seattle, WA | Climate Pledge Arena

Wed Dec 04 | Minneapolis, MN | Target Center

Thu Dec 05 | Chicago, IL | United Center

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