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 intransitive verb

Examples of road trip in a Sentence

The team won three of five games on its road trip.
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Hours earlier, the Heat were in Denver for the third game of a road trip and lost to the Nuggets, 122-112. Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025 The outcome of the game — a 7-3 Anaheim rout to hand Florida a loss to start this four-game road trip — was bad enough. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025 Sacramento pulled off a surprising 135-133 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday before ending a tough four-game road trip with a 130-124 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Monday. Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025 During the road trip, Ashlee Buzzard allegedly removed the Malibu's California license plate, number 9MNG101, Zick said. Alex Stone, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for road trip

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of road trip was in 1953

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“Road trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20trip. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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