"jaunt" is correct and is used in written English.
It is a verb that means "to go on a short, leisurely trip". You can use it when describing a leisurely trip or outing. Example: We had a lovely jaunt to the countryside over the weekend.
After we attended, on another American jaunt (those were the days), a PJ Harvey concert, she said that she wanted to get on the bus and join the tour.
It's a jaunt so lavish as to be almost comic – where big money developers invite town hall executives for secret discussions aboard private yachts, and whose regulars boast that they get through more champagne than all the liggers at the film festival.
Most of them are ethnic Tutsis, like the leaders of Rwanda, a short jaunt across the border.
AFTER Barack Obama's first long jaunt abroad as president, Americans are in two minds.
Vice got a torrent of free press, and the show recounting Mr Rodman's jaunt will surely draw high ratings.
A child's jaunt on a tricycle might become quite exciting.
As far as tonight's jaunt on Air Force One to see Mississippi Valley State play Western Kentucky was concerned, the president and the prime minister were unquestionably using each other.
A trip to a talkfest in Brazil aside, however, Mr Modi's own travel abroad has been rather parochial a jaunt to one Himalayan neighbour, tiny Bhutan, in June; and, from August 3rd, he plans another to Nepal.
HUGO CHAVEZ flew off last week on a jaunt to six Asian countries and Russia, leaving Venezuelans perplexed as to the future direction of their president's "Bolivarian revolution".
Not only is the asking price more than seven times the $20m cost of a jaunt to the ISS, it also requires months of demanding physical and psychological training.
Those looking to go on holiday had to go to the bank, armed with their airplane tickets, to prove that they were indeed going on a jaunt before being allowed to buy foreign currency.
