Other Words from joyride

joyride intransitive verb

joyrider \ ˈjȯi-ˌrī-dər

\ noun

joyriding noun

Examples of joyride in a Sentence

Some teenager stole my car and took it for a joyride.

Recent Examples on the Web But don’t be fooled: the downhill slope is not a joyride. — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022 The experience is also a popular birthday and anniversary gift, a joyride with bragging rights. — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 2 June 2022 Robin and Vernon Huffman met 20 years ago at the Loma Alta Preserve, north of San Francisco in Marin County, on a winter joyride with their mountain-biking club: the Forest Knolls Freewheelers. — Patty Hodapp, Outside Online, 8 June 2022 In the first minutes after midnight when the lockdown lifted, fireworks and firecrackers could be heard ringing across town, and some residents revved up their cars for a joyride. — Eva Dou And Pei-lin Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2022 The joyride stops abruptly when the boy crashes into the furry animal. — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022 The fact that Bezos can blast out more pollution in a single joyride than a seventh of the world’s population could ever muster gets to the crux of WIL’s research. — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 18 May 2022 Yet on his Bitcoin joyride, the merry prankster’s got no more control than a drunk at the wheel. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022 Whaley and the 2-year-old would pretend to repair tricycles together or cram into the boy’s tiny green-and-black Monster Truck for a joyride down the driveway. — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022 See More

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