hitch a ride
idiom
informal
: to get a ride in a passing vehicle
Her car broke down, so she had to hitch a ride with a passing truck.
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Only the first season is available to stream on Netflix, but with 13 episodes ready to go, there are plenty of reasons to hitch a ride on the Magic School Bus.
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Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
In a medical robotics breakthrough, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have built a new kind of microcatheter that can hitch a ride on the bloodstream to navigate the body’s narrowest arteries, even thinner than a human hair.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
The astronauts themselves will be aboard an Orion capsule that will hitch a ride out of Earth's atmosphere atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket, built by Boeing and Northrop Grumman.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Instead, the moths hitch a ride on air currents or tropical storms coming from Central and South America, southern Florida, and southern Texas.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
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Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
In a medical robotics breakthrough, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have built a new kind of microcatheter that can hitch a ride on the bloodstream to navigate the body’s narrowest arteries, even thinner than a human hair.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
The astronauts themselves will be aboard an Orion capsule that will hitch a ride out of Earth's atmosphere atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket, built by Boeing and Northrop Grumman.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Instead, the moths hitch a ride on air currents or tropical storms coming from Central and South America, southern Florida, and southern Texas.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Hitch a ride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hitch%20a%20ride. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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