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Recent Examples of joyride
Noun
In June 2024, the pair recreated the video’s memorable car scene, in which Rodney and a 5-year-old Elijah go for a joyride down a dirt road. Emily Weaver, People.com, 8 May 2025 In January, a group of teens broke into a pair of R trains parked along lay-up tracks in Brooklyn and took them for a joyride. Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025 Blue Origin, which Bezos started in 2000, has been offering the cosmic joyrides to celebrities and other paying customers since its New Shepard spacecraft began crewed launches in 2021. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 Limits on how frequently a NASCAR team can test have curbed many opportunities drivers once had to take their rental car for a joyride around a racetrack. Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for joyride
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
  • Now, following the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, the Iranian Parliament has reportedly voted to close this important energy transit chokepoint.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • Hahn, who chairs Metro’s transit board, worried that residents will be too afraid to go to work, attend church and, now, hop on public transit.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • Maria is a former basketball player for the University of New Orleans Maria cut up the court herself, as a Division I basketball player for the University of New Orleans from 1993 to 1996, per the Rutgers University website.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 25 June 2025
  • Video and phone recordings showed Frey cutting up a rubber glove, filling it with something and stuffing the package into an arrow shaft during a call with Smith.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • It will also be focused around walkability and public transport.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 June 2025
  • In 2022, after Russia’s invasion, France prepared to move several hundred troops to Romania, but its military planners needed the U.S. to provide transport.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • All of a sudden, now everybody's clowning around and no work is getting done.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • Williams has previously clowned Perry for wearing dresses in his movies, so these real-life accusations could find their way into his next stand-up set.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • The Red Sox and Mariners motored through Thursday’s rubber match in Seattle.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
  • Those motoring to work in a Rolls-Royce aren’t being left out, either.
    Susan Campos, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Iran has threatened to mine the strait in recent days to effectively block the transportation of oil.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • Agents are even being put to use in clinical trials, carrying out tasks such as screening applications, matching candidates to trials and booking transportation to the test facility.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Arc Games Treacherous terrain is a big part of the strategy, whether using it for power-ups or kiting enemies into bad spots.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Saturday 🐶 Celebrate dogs and kites at the free Fest of Tails at McAllister Park, 9am-2pm.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Duran and Valera lived in a Miami bayfront condo and tooled around in a Maserati.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
  • Staying at the legendary Malaysia Hotel (where Tony Wheeler wrote the first Lonely Planet guidebook), tooling around town in tuk-tuks, sipping tom yum gai at a street stall, and making the obligatory pilgrimage to the Grand Palace to view the Emerald Buddha.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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