long weekend

noun

: a weekend that includes the Friday before, the Monday after, or both because one does not have to work or go to school on those days

We took Friday off and went to the coast for a long weekend.

Examples of long weekend in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While the average cruise length is around seven days, short sailings can pack an entire vacation’s worth of fun into a mid-week getaway or long weekend. —Nathan Diller, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

Some cruise lines are offering three- and four-night options for a long weekend at sea, as well as five-night cruises that won’t take up all of your vacation days. —Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025

The Sports Briefing is still recovering from the Tigers' big win in Cleveland and is taking a long weekend. —Christian Romo, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025

Come October, New Yorkers looking to escape the city for a long weekend trade the coastal enclaves of the Hamptons for the golden hiking trails and quaint little towns of Upstate New York—and nowhere is this mass exodus more visible than in the Catskills. —Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for long weekend

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• ascend
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• befriend