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 two-day road trip would also mark Guthrie’s first time moving away from home. —Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026

LeBron James had 17 points and 10 assists for the Lakers, who snapped Philadelphia's five-game winning streak with a big second-half rally in their first game back from a draining eight-game road trip. —CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026

Check out these four restaurants that are worth a road trip. —Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026

That’s the crib notes version of the Sharks’ disappointing 1-3-1 road trip, which ended Wednesday with a 4-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena despite a brilliant 38-save effort from goalie Yaroslav Askarov. —Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 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
• gunship
• headship
• heirship
• judgeship
• kinship