joyriding

Definition of joyridingnext
present participle of joyride

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyriding
Verb
  • The two men high-fived and then put the fish in the livewell before motoring back to the dock to call the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s ShareLunker program.
    Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Still Talking, her final book, will star the same wonderful characters motoring through their days on tides of chat.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • While driving - Stick to the middle lanes and stay on elevated ground.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Aiden Robbins took the most substantial swing of the night in that inning, driving a two-run, back-side home run to right field.
    David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, as all of this is happening, Meredith is cutting up with the other ladies at the spa, without a care in the world.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Ford is planning on cutting up to 1,000 roles in electric-vehicle production in Germany.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Such efforts would have likely included hacking military networks, jamming radar systems, disrupting satellites, and destroying communication nodes.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Giveaway.
    AJC.com, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Aztecs won 89-86 before an electric home crowd on a night that had 12 ties and 11 lead changes and seemed like five against six sometimes with the way UNLV coach Josh Pastner was prancing around the floor in a suit and tie while the ball was in play.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.
    Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The other six warned the city was racing toward a costly and uncertain exit strategy.
    Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Her propulsive new book, Driven, traces a life shaped by that belief—from racing her brother on a 50cc bike in Oban, Scotland, at six, to entering the Kart World Championship at 14 as the only girl in the paddock.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Only in its third year, the fair has already more than doubled its exhibitors list since its first edition, leaping from 30 to upwards of 70.
    Katherine McGrath, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Consider the squirrel outside your window, leaping branch to branch, adjusting mid-flight for wind and flex.
    Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
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“Joyriding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyriding. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.

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