away-day
A meeting, often of a whole department, project or sales team, which takes place off-site and away from the participants’ regular office surroundings, usually for a whole day or sometimes a weekend. The focus is often on team building.
The intention is to allow the meeting to focus on the particular task in hand without the participants being distracted by the demands which, if the meeting were held in the workplace, would normally be made on their attention (such as emails and phone calls). The term derives from the name given to a cheap day return railway ticket after pricing by time of travel was introduced on the British railway network in the 1960s.
Examples: sailing days, racing days, cookery days and golfing days
