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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The 10-day trip will send four astronauts around the far side of the moon in NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched into orbit by the most powerful rocket ever to send people into space. Briana Alvarado, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026 Griffin made a special day trip from Michigan, so her daughter, Payton, could experience the event. Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026 Yielding 32 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists to Wembanyama was how the Hornets (34-34) capped off their four-game, eight-day trip west of the Mississippi River, settling for a split. Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 14 Mar. 2026 Article continues below Artemis 2 will send four astronauts — NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen — on a 10-day trip around the moon and back home again. Mike Wall, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026 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 19 Mar. 2026.

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