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 intransitive verb

Examples of road trip in a Sentence

The team won three of five games on its road trip.
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Now your Flavortown road trip can include a stop at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025 Yet when cameras captured him at a UFC fight card in New York last November, in between games on a Nuggets road trip through the South, the optics were rough. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025 The team’s young starting pitchers also dazzled collectively on the final road trip of the season. Dan Hayes, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 And even what happened on this journey, on this road trip in really specific moments. Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for road trip

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of road trip was in 1953

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“Road trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20trip. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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