on the road

idiom

1

: traveling especially in a car, truck, bus, etc.

We've been on the road since Tuesday.

Musicians often spend many months on the road.

2

of a vehicle : being used

You don't see too many of those cars on the road anymore.

3

: in good enough condition to be legally driven

It will cost $1,500 to get the car back on the road.

Examples of on the road in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The vehicle is claimed to detect everything on the road. —Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025

But their team is 5-14 on the road under Napier. —Noah White, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2025

Last season the Wildcats came close to upsetting Texas Tech on the road in a 52-51 overtime loss, and TCU was determined to not get into a shootout with the Wildcats. —Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2025

Whether the backups can repeat that success on Sunday will go a long way to determining if the 49ers can win on the road again. —Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for on the road

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