hit the road

phrase

: leave, travel

also : to set out

Examples of hit the road in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Labor Day is coming up, which means plenty of fine Americans will hit the road in search of the perfect campsite for one last hurrah before fall starts. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

That was certainly the case for Sydney Rose and Nick Mateyunas of Arcy Drive, two artists on this year’s lineup, who hit the road together en route to Stateside. — Lori Majewski, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026

Junior hockey had returned to some normalcy coming out of the pandemic, allowing Forton and his staff to hit the road for more in-person scouting. — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Outdoing themselves, the group hit the road again in 2024, wrapping up their Hackney Diamonds tour just before Jagger’s 81st birthday in July. — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hit the road

• afterload
• episode
• internode
• microcode
• multimode
• nematode
• nesselrode
• overflowed
• overload
• overrode
• radioed
• torpedoed