Staycation is stay + vacation: a holiday spent at home or close to it, with no long trips. Slow breakfasts, the park next door, the museums you've walked past for years. In Britain it also means a holiday in your own country instead of abroad. And it doesn't sound like you couldn't get away: it sounds like a treat, a real break with no travel and no packing.
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have / take / plan a staycation; a staycation at home
- We took a staycation and visited the museums we usually walked past.
- Her ideal staycation includes slow breakfasts and afternoons in the local park.
- They planned a staycation instead of booking flights abroad.
What changed
First versionWe flew to another country for a staycation.
RevisionWe flew to another country for a vacation.
The word is trendy, so it's easy to use it for any holiday. But stay is the key part: if you flew to another country, it's an ordinary vacation or holiday.
Working from home is work, while a staycation is rest. A day off is just one free day. A holiday at home is the neutral choice for writing or an essay.
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We spent our holiday at home exploring local parks; it was a ___.
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staycation — The sentence describes a holiday at home spent exploring local parks, so it's a staycation. A business trip is travel for work, and there's none here.
Describe how you would spend a holiday without going anywhere.
For our staycation, we switched off work notifications and explored the riverside paths.
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