'To go for an excursion'?

[ooohlala]

Is 'Why don't you want to go for the excursion' good English? Or does it have to be 'on the excursion'?

 

[Rover_KE]

'...on the excursion sounds better to me.'

Rover

 

[konungursvia]

To go for it means to decide upon it, to go on it means to travel through it.

 

[BobK]

To go for it means to decide upon it, to go on it means to travel through it.

:up: ... when 'excursion' is used to mean a trip. If the context makes 'excursion' into a sort of metaphor meaning 'the part of the activities devoted to going on a trip' then 'for' is possible (but 'go for' is a prepositonal verb, unlike the phrasal verb 'go for' that means 'choose'):

'I'm going for the excursion, but I can't stay on for the party in the evening.'

b

 

[konungursvia]

:up: ... when 'excursion' is used to mean a trip. If the context makes 'excursion' into a sort of metaphor meaning 'the part of the activities devoted to going on a trip' then 'for' is possible (but 'go for' is a prepositonal verb, unlike the phrasal verb 'go for' that means 'choose'):

'I'm going for the excursion, but I can't stay on for the party in the evening.'

b

I agree, and I think that's more or less what I was hoping to say.