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1. A sudden short attack
   - raid, maraud
    
2. An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
   "scientists' forays into politics"

1. Steal goods; take as spoils
   "During the earthquake people forayed the stores that were deserted by their owners";
   - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, pillage
    
2. Briefly enter enemy territory

Derived forms: forayed, foraying, forays

Type of: attempt, effort, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], incursion, penetrate, penetration, perforate, take, try

Encyclopedia: Foray