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
Examples of road trip in a Sentence
The team won three of five games on its road trip.
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Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
That doesn’t bode well for summer road trip plans.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 15 May 2026
What exactly the endgame of this road trip is doesn’t quite crystallize onscreen, leaving gaps and missing bookends that might encourage you to brush up on your European postwar history.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
With the Giants on the first leg of a three-city road trip, Vitello said there have been talks about giving Adames a day off on Thursday night before the team heads to Sacramento for three games against the Athletics.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
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“Road trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20trip. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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