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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But their unlikely road trip takes an unexpected turn when a local detective sets out to track them down.
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
Some of this involves a lie detector test and a cross-state road trip featuring the heavily pregnant Mayci Neeley and Mikayla Matthews, who act like this season’s Statler and Waldorf.
—Peter White, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
And there are plenty of sleek and stylish models to choose from in hip boomtowns like Bozeman and Missoula—perfect locales to start and end your road trip adventures.
—Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2025
Subsequent episodes tend to have one major skirmish and one or two little violent conflicts, but the episodes are as much about filling in backstory and pushing characters along on a road trip to Tokyo.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
Some of this involves a lie detector test and a cross-state road trip featuring the heavily pregnant Mayci Neeley and Mikayla Matthews, who act like this season’s Statler and Waldorf.
—Peter White, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
And there are plenty of sleek and stylish models to choose from in hip boomtowns like Bozeman and Missoula—perfect locales to start and end your road trip adventures.
—Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2025
Subsequent episodes tend to have one major skirmish and one or two little violent conflicts, but the episodes are as much about filling in backstory and pushing characters along on a road trip to Tokyo.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for road trip
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“Road trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20trip. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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