road trip

noun

1

: a trip taken by a sports team to play one or more away games

2

: an extended trip in a motor vehicle

road-trip

ˈrōd-ˈtrip 

intransitive verb

Examples of road trip in a Sentence

The team won three of five games on its road trip.

Recent Examples on the Web

The first road trip will be all of roughly 150 miles east in Mobile at South Alabama. —Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025

Instead, the team is in a hotel, giving the feel of a more traditional road trip following their stop in Los Angeles for three games against the Dodgers earlier in the week. —Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 17 May 2025

Pivetta spent Monday and Tuesday at home recovering from a bug that hit the team in the middle of the road trip. —Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025

Actions that usually wouldn’t merit a second thought — taking a shower, going on a road trip, tanning — are suddenly imbued with life-or-death significance. —Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for road trip

• airship
• airstrip
• clerkship
• courtship
• equip
• filmstrip
• flagship
• gunship
• headship
• heirship
• judgeship
• kinship