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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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.
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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
While many winter pests hitch a ride indoors, Hancock points out that dry, warm conditions (like those found in heated homes in winter) are the ideal environment for spider mites.
—Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 14 Sep. 2025
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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
While many winter pests hitch a ride indoors, Hancock points out that dry, warm conditions (like those found in heated homes in winter) are the ideal environment for spider mites.
—Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Hitch a ride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hitch%20a%20ride. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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