day trip
noun
: a journey in which a person goes to visit a place and then returns home on the same day
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At the end of the three-day trip, Buzzard returned home with the rental car, this time without Melodee.
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
As an expert who has been planning trips to Croatia for a decade, here are my tips for the ultimate day trip to the Pakleni Islands.
—Marco Palermo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
According to public records, a business association led by the elder Duong paid $6,400 to cover Azevedo’s airfare, hotel and meals during a 10-day trip with other public officials to Vietnam in the summer of 2023.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
Stay If your day trip runs long, book one of the waterfront tiny houses at River Rocks Resort set on a peninsula jutting out into the Coosa River.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
As an expert who has been planning trips to Croatia for a decade, here are my tips for the ultimate day trip to the Pakleni Islands.
—Marco Palermo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
According to public records, a business association led by the elder Duong paid $6,400 to cover Azevedo’s airfare, hotel and meals during a 10-day trip with other public officials to Vietnam in the summer of 2023.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
Stay If your day trip runs long, book one of the waterfront tiny houses at River Rocks Resort set on a peninsula jutting out into the Coosa River.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for day trip
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“Day trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20trip. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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