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

LeAnn Rimes is spending her road trip from California back home to Nashville naked in a hot tub with her husband, Eddie Cibrian. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

Psych-folk upstart Dagmar Zuniga is taking her 2025 debut album for a road trip this fall, with a tour across America and Europe, and support from Japanese composer Yasuaki Shimizu. — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

Think of those classic road trip disasters on the silver screen. — Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026

Located just 24 miles southwest of Austin, Driftwood is a road trip-worthy spot beyond the barbecue. — Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for road trip

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