joyriding

verb

present participle of joyride
1
as in clowning

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2
as in motoring

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyriding
  1. cutting up
  2. motoring
  3. carousing
  4. driving
  5. prancing
  6. hacking
  7. leaping
  8. racing
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  • Using unseen footage from Presley’s 1969 to 1976 Las Vegas residency, the movie plays the hits – plus The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel – but also showcases his sense of humor, quipping with crowds and cutting up with bandmates.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • Always cutting up and making memories.
    — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Definition of cutting up
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  • Mora picked the ball up on halfway and just kept on motoring forward, moving towards two runners on the right, eventually nudging the ball through for Jorge Sanchez, who bundled the ball across for Quinones to finish.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Some manufacturers are trying to mimic the ICE car experience, such as retro-fitting old school motoring noises and gear simulations to entertain understimulated EV drivers.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 May 2026
Definition of motoring
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  • Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
  • The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Definition of carousing
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  • The war with Iran and renewed closure of the strait aren’t the only factors driving prices higher.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • For Åkerfeldt, there were two competing philosophies driving the band’s music.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 19 July 2026
Definition of driving
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  • During their meeting, Baracca’s mother suggested that Ferrari use the prancing horse on his cars as a good-luck symbol.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026
  • Tis hard to see the mighty prancing war horse, trampling the dying and dead beneath their merciless feet.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of prancing
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  • The agent did not invent a wholly new method of hacking, Woodward says.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 22 July 2026
  • Most tools monitor internal telemetry dressed up as external visibility, leaving adversary intent signals and hacking campaign planning invisible.
    — Kumar Ritesh, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of hacking
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  • Clark made a leaping catch in the back of the end zone to trim Sierra Canyon’s lead to 21-14 with about nine minutes left.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 19 July 2026
  • That included a nice defensive play by Randal Grichuk, who made a leaping catch at the left-field wall for the first out of the fourth inning.
    — LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
Definition of leaping
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  • Anyone seeking a gold medal in tennis in 2028 will be racing against time.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Now at the age of 50, Johnson has joined TNT Sports as a studio analyst while still racing in select events.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 23 July 2026
Definition of racing
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