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

In addition, many of the road trip’s corporate sponsors—including Boeing, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean, Toyota, Shell, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Lyft—are regulated by Duffy’s department. — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Dombrowski had Mattingly speak to Harper about it at some point during the road trip. — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

The comments followed Indiana throughout its three-game road trip. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Nyara Sabally had 19 points and eight rebounds for the expansion Tempo, who began a five-game road trip by losing their sixth straight game and 10th in their last 11. — ABC News, 2 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