1
: a ride taken for pleasure (as in a car or aircraft)
especially
: an automobile ride marked by reckless driving (as in a stolen car)
2
: conduct or action resembling a joyride especially in disregard of cost or consequences
Examples of joyride in a Sentence
Some teenager stole my car and took it for a joyride.
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In the film, that includes a joyride around Chicago in the Ferrari and catastrophe when the car is returned.
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Michael Martin, Architectural Digest, 11 June 2026
The joyride ended with a customary burnout, as the rising star closed his big day in a cloud of smoke.
—Time, 9 June 2026
An emotionally disturbed man swiped an idling private ambulance off a Bronx street Thursday — taking the rescue vehicle on a short joyride before crashing it into a car, police said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
In the instance that fueled the witness-dissuasion conviction, a teen boy, John Doe 2 reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from O’Connor’s SUV — driven by another teen — then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
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Michael Martin, Architectural Digest, 11 June 2026
The joyride ended with a customary burnout, as the rising star closed his big day in a cloud of smoke.
—Time, 9 June 2026
An emotionally disturbed man swiped an idling private ambulance off a Bronx street Thursday — taking the rescue vehicle on a short joyride before crashing it into a car, police said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
In the instance that fueled the witness-dissuasion conviction, a teen boy, John Doe 2 reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from O’Connor’s SUV — driven by another teen — then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joyride. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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