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

On August 31, 1940, Leigh and Olivier took a secret road trip to California, joined by screenwriter Garson Kanin and Katharine Hepburn. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026

The Athletics were swept for the second straight series and lost all six games on their road trip. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026

The two-city festival brings together local chefs and farmers that make Houston and Dallas worth a culinary road trip. — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026

Told in a comic, vibrant tone, this picaresque story follows the very wealthy Taiwanese-Chinese Wang family, who suddenly lose their fortune in the 2008 financial crisis and embark on a California-to-New York road trip, in a final bid for salvation. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 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