staycation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌsteɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: staycations
form: stacation
form: stay-cation
Etymology: The noun is a blend of stay (at home) + vacation. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Increasing product lifespans and decreased energy use may also enable both efficiency and sufficiency [...]. This includes means by which materials are used more productively (i.e. the same quantity providing a longer service) and throughput is slowed (i.e. products are replaced less frequently, plus, in the case of tourism, distance of travel is less – the so-called ‘staycation’ approach).
ref: 2009, C. Michael Hall, Alan A. Lew, “Futures of Tourism”, in Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An Integrated Approach, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 323:
text: This extreme "no" discretionary spending plan does not have to eliminate fun from your life. It actually challenges you to find creative sources of entertainment and "staycations" (vacations at home or near your home town).
ref: 2009, Scott M. Spann, “Step 4: Create a Personal Spending Plan”, in Tax Resolution and Financial Freedom: Using the Financial Planning Process to Deal with Tax Debt, Mount Pleasant, S.C.: LifeSpan Financial Planning, →ISBN, part II (Starting the Tax Resolution Process), page 70:
text: We need to encourage stay-close-to-home vacations, or "stay-cations," and check out nature's splendor, recreational opportunities and entertainment attractions nearby.
ref: 2009 June, Tom Turnipseed, “Simplicity, Simply Put”, in Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska, Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, →ISBN, part 1 (Simplicity Defined), page 77:
synonyms: word: homecation
word: staycay
glosses: A vacation spent at or close to home.
examples: text: If you're feeling the pinch of high gas prices and job woes, try a "Staycation", the new industry term for staying at home and enjoying yourself.
ref: 1997, Pathfinders Travel: The Travel Magazine for People of Color, Philadelphia, Pa.: Pathfinders Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64:
text: Instead of going away for a vacation, consider a staycation. That's when you stay home and explore your hometown—try a new restaurant, hike a local park, or visit that museum you've been meaning to check out.
ref: 2009 August, Nancy Conner, “Going Green: Transportation and Travel”, in Dawn Frausto, editor, Living Green: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, part 2 (Greening Your Lifestyle), page 246:
text: [O]ne family I know realized they didn't have the money available for their usual summer camping trip. So instead of going on a vacation they decided to have a "staycation." They parked their pop-up camper in their driveway at home, set up some tents on the lawn, and slept in them every night. They cooked out every day with the grill and found free concerts, museums, and events in their own city.
ref: 2010, Brian Kluth, with Stan Guthrie, “Protection Principles”, in Christopher Reese, editor, Experience God as Your Provider: Finding Financial Stability in Unstable Times, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Publishers, →ISBN, part 2 (Receive God’s Principles), page 99:
text: For me, whether I'm on a visit to a monastery in Greece or an elaborately planned staycation (that involves disengaging from all my devices, going on long hikes or walks, yoga classes and unhurried meditations, sleeping in with no alarms, and reading actual books you can underline that have nothing to do with work), the essential element is to regain that sense of wonder.
ref: 2014, Arianna Huffington, “Wonder”, in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 193:
text: I could stop this right now, I thought. We could unpack the car and go back to our lives—a staycation in our own home.
ref: 2014 November, Paula Treick DeBoard, “Curtis”, in The Fragile World, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Mira, →ISBN, page 108:
text: [...] Melissa uses some of her annual leave to add two days to a three-day weekend, and these five spontaneous days off became not only a Greenwich Village stay-cation but also something of the honeymoon we were too busy to take together in our hectic "uni-moon" days. But what to do on our stay-cation? Ten thousand Big Apple activities beckon.
ref: 2014 November, William Powers, “Rooftoop Bees and Beans”, in New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City, Novato, Calif.: New World Library, →ISBN, part 1 (Spring to Summer: The Natural City), page 36:
synonyms: word: homecation
word: staycay
glosses: A vacation spent at or close to home.
A vacation spent at one's own home without other overnight accommodation.
examples: text: It's holiday time again. Having invented the staycation – no, I don't like the word either – four years ago when we ran out of money and out of patience with French traffic, we are sticking to principle and, as we did four months ago, hanging out at Tom Hodgkinson's gaff in north Devon.
ref: 2009 August 31, Nicholas Lezard, “Down and Out in London”, in New Statesman, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2012, page 54:
text: Somewhere in the last few decades the stacation was substituted for the prestige and glamour of the trip abroad, and the recent flurry of low cost airlines all but cemented that as the new tradition for those that can afford it.
ref: 2012 October 24, Jeff Brazier, “The Joys of Camping”, in HuffPost, UK edition, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2017:
text: The rise in patronage partly reflects the growing trend for ‘staycations’ in the UK, in addition to Pitlochry’s status as the southern gateway to the world-famous Cairngorms National Park.
ref: 2019 December 4, Paul Stephen, “At the Heart of the Local Community”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58:
text: Many families who had planned to go away for the easter holidays are now deciding to grab a tent and go on an isolated family camping stacations to ensure the kids are still entertained as many holiday resorts go on possible lockdown.
ref: 2020 March 16, Heather Carrick, “Coronavirus: Glaswegians stock up on camping gear before self-isolation”, in Glasgow Times, Glasgow: Newsquest (Herald & Times), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2020:
synonyms: word: homecation
word: staycay
glosses: A vacation spent at or close to home.
A holiday spent in one's own country without travelling abroad.
Coordinate terms: nearcation
Derived terms: word: staycate
word: staycationer
word: staycay
Related terms: vacation