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

This will be the penultimate road trip of the season for the Royals, who will be back home when the calendar turns to September. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026

The Transportation Department insisted that this was all above board, claiming, among other things, that the road trip was official business and that Duffy had folded in relevant work meetings. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026

One of the highlights of his cross-country road trip were the Salt Flats just outside of Salt Lake City. — Kiara Adams, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026

As powerful as Diamanda’s performance was, however, that specific reference later came to mean more to me on a drunken road trip through Kosovo with a Serb nationalist. — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 21 Aug. 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