as in hitching
to travel by securing free rides
another one of those novels in which the hero undertakes a journey of self-discovery by hitchhiking around the country
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Recent Examples of hitchhiking
What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.
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Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
His career began by flipping Whoppers at Burger King, hitchhiking across the world, and living off of food stamps.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
The high school student was hitchhiking for a ride to her ballet class (rather than waiting for the bus) when Kemper picked her up.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Without the resources to evacuate, Maddox maneuvered through the storm, sleeping on friends’ couches and swimming, hitchhiking and walking her way out of the city, Haygood wrote.
—Curtis Bunn, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
The original film details a three-year surfing tour that Metz took between 1958 and 1961, a journey that involved steamship-hopping, hitchhiking, every other possible manner of transportation across Europe, Australia and Africa.
—Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
The three boys went to the Loop to watch a movie and were picked up by Hansen while hitchhiking home.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Prosecutors said Grissom, an Arkansas long-haul truck driver who had a lengthy criminal record, picked up Johns, who was hitchhiking, on his way to Oklahoma City to apply for a job.
—arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
There were always people hitchhiking on I-80, hoping for a ride across the bridge.
—Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
His career began by flipping Whoppers at Burger King, hitchhiking across the world, and living off of food stamps.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
The high school student was hitchhiking for a ride to her ballet class (rather than waiting for the bus) when Kemper picked her up.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Without the resources to evacuate, Maddox maneuvered through the storm, sleeping on friends’ couches and swimming, hitchhiking and walking her way out of the city, Haygood wrote.
—Curtis Bunn, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
The original film details a three-year surfing tour that Metz took between 1958 and 1961, a journey that involved steamship-hopping, hitchhiking, every other possible manner of transportation across Europe, Australia and Africa.
—Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
The three boys went to the Loop to watch a movie and were picked up by Hansen while hitchhiking home.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Prosecutors said Grissom, an Arkansas long-haul truck driver who had a lengthy criminal record, picked up Johns, who was hitchhiking, on his way to Oklahoma City to apply for a job.
—arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
There were always people hitchhiking on I-80, hoping for a ride across the bridge.
—Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhiking
hitching
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The researchers had shown in 2023 that parasitic scraps of DNA could spread within bacterial populations by hitching rides on the tails of infecting viruses.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the new Regensdorf trial, RIVR ONE robots will be hitching rides in Swiss Post delivery vans, then carrying select Swiss Post parcels and Migros Online grocery deliveries from those vans to clients' doorsteps.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Hitchhiking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhiking. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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