1
: a ride taken for pleasure (as in a car or aircraft)
especially
: an automobile ride marked by reckless driving (as in a stolen car)
2
: conduct or action resembling a joyride especially in disregard of cost or consequences
Examples of joyride in a Sentence
Some teenager stole my car and took it for a joyride.
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For occasional joyrides, lighter, fresher colors will show less wear.
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Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
In another incident, a teen boy reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from an SUV then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot with O’Connor allegedly behind the wheel.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Two months ago, a thief stole the control stick from an R train parked under southern Brooklyn — the same section of track where a repeat train thief recklessly threw a train in reverse during a joyride months earlier.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
The conservative impulse — skepticism of sweeping change, respect for traditions, wariness of unintended consequences — can prevent politics from becoming a moral joyride that smashes against the guardrails and calls it courage.
—Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
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Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
In another incident, a teen boy reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from an SUV then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot with O’Connor allegedly behind the wheel.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Two months ago, a thief stole the control stick from an R train parked under southern Brooklyn — the same section of track where a repeat train thief recklessly threw a train in reverse during a joyride months earlier.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
The conservative impulse — skepticism of sweeping change, respect for traditions, wariness of unintended consequences — can prevent politics from becoming a moral joyride that smashes against the guardrails and calls it courage.
—Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joyride. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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