road trip

noun

1

: a trip taken by a sports team to play one or more away games

2

: an extended trip in a motor vehicle

road-trip

ˈrōd-ˈtrip 

intransitive verb

Examples of road trip in a Sentence

The team won three of five games on its road trip.

Recent Examples on the Web

Beginning as a road trip, then shifting to a punishing vision of hardscrabble life in Accra, the film blossoms into a story of irrevocable bonds forged out of shared adversity. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026

Aalto Works, Finland Finland's newest World Heritage site doubles as the blueprint for an architecture road trip. — Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Next, the Mets will continue this three-city road trip with a series in Atlanta, beginning Monday. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026

Assuming all goes well, Mayer could join the Giants for their two-city road trip next week. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for road trip

• airship
• airstrip
• clerkship
• courtship
• equip
• filmstrip
• flagship
• headship
• heirship
• judgeship
• kinship
• lightship