day trip

noun

: a journey in which a person goes to visit a place and then returns home on the same day

Examples of day trip in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Family members and officials with Blackbird Mountain Guides said the group was on the final day of a three-day trip to the Frog Lake huts and were returning to the trailhead when the avalanche struck. —Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 22 Feb. 2026

Artemis 2 will send three NASA astronauts and one Canadian on a roughly 10-day trip around the moon and back to Earth in a Orion capsule. —Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2026

During their 10-day trip, the four astronauts are expected to reach a greater distance from Earth than any humans have gone before. —Denise Chow, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026

The venture, which will send three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day trip around the moon, is meant to set the stage for a lunar landing during the follow-up Artemis 3 mission. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for day trip

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