TRIPS Synonyms: 252 Similar and Opposite Words

trips 1 of 2

noun

plural of trip

as in expeditions

a going from one place to another usually of some distance I'd like to book a trip to Greece with your travel agency

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

as in mistakes

an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy even a small trip in the bomb-making calculations could lead to disaster

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

trips

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of trip

as in jogs

to go at a pace faster than a walk went tripping up the steps of city hall in their eagerness to get married

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in falls

to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily tripped over a chair and landed on her face

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in hops

to move with a light springing step dancers tripping lightly across the stage

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in travels

to take a trip especially of some distance while he was growing up, the family tripped to New England every summer

Synonyms & Similar Words

as in fumbles

to make a mistake the press has had it in for the new governor, and they are just waiting for her to trip

Synonyms & Similar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of trips

Noun

The company has been gradually increasing its use of AI across back office and customer-facing roles and has introduced an AI chatbot to its website to help customers plan their trips. — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 QuickBooks Free currently allows up to two invoices per month and mileage tracking for up to five trips per month. — Carson Brunson, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 Over the same period, CATS reported 10 assaults, or less than four per every 10 million passenger trips, on the light rail, data CATS submitted to the federal government shows. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026 Boat trips to Capri and Positano are on the doorstep, as are hair-raising Vespa tours on hairpin roads and private visits to Pompei and Herculaneum. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 The corridor records almost 100,000 trips each day, according to 2025 MoDOT data. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026 From Chip Kelly to Doug Pederson and Nick Sirianni, Johnson maintained his high level of play, earning five All-Pro nods, including two on the First Team and six trips to the Pro Bowl. — Cbs Philadelphia, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 Soundcore Boom 2 Plus The Soundcore Boom 2 Plus is built for anyone who believes backyard parties and beach trips deserve concert-level volume. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2026 In backwards trips and tramples, the protesters’ standing formation became disarrayed. — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Verb

And as the cops try to arrest them, only to realize their own jails aren’t accessible, the film expresses perfectly how the government trips over its own feet while resisting inevitable change. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 Wheeler trips more often now and no longer rides his scooter around the cul de sac because of his deteriorating vision and poor coordination. — Gerry Smith, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026 At one point Hussain, having to contend with more limited space in the box with another person in there, nearly trips over a box. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Gillian Jacobs as Jerri Dougan Gerry was the starting quarterback for the Catfish at the beginning of the first season until Danny (Frankie Rodriguez) — the school mascot who helps turn Russ into Chad and keep up his illusion — trips him. — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026 Standard rooms already feel generous by Vegas standards, and suites step up to apartment-like layouts, with separate living areas that make longer stays or work trips more comfortable. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2026 An agent holding valid credentials, performing thousands of plausible-looking actions across four days, trips neither alarm. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Bathroom trips while filming The Odyssey were an odyssey in itself for John Leguizamo. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026 Travelers plan trips around fashion weeks, shop for luxury goods abroad, and seek out hotels with onsite boutiques that are as thoughtfully curated as their restaurants. — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trips

Noun

Seghers shows how the Nazis win over unemployed youth by hosting parades, concerts, and outdoor expeditions.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Elzam is an eight-part documentary series following a group of falconers on hunting expeditions, documenting a tradition that has long been a source of pride in Qatar, the Gulf and the wider Arab world.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of expeditions

Noun

And not all of the proofs were certified as correct by the automatic logic verification platform Lean—in fact, some have already been retracted after outside scientists found mistakes.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
Programmers showed it sorting email, spotting writing mistakes and even playing games.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of mistakes

Verb

The January 16, 2027 slot once again falls the day after the end of nomination voting in the Academy Awards on January 15, and before the January 21 nominations announcement.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
As night falls, Kenny and Christina are over the moon about their trip.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of falls

Verb

Blanding hops in and out of the truck, grabbing buckets of food scraps from porches and restaurants, piling those scraps into bins in the truck bed and driving them to a composting site.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
For the classy music video, Legend hops behind his Yamaha piano to perform the ethereal track with some help from the Hollywood Cinematic Orchestra, who are suited and booted.

— Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of hops

Verb

This isn't too much to ask for given its position given its Little Cottonwood Canyon position, which can enhance snowfall when Pacific moisture travels inland and reaches the Wasatch Mountains.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Like Mary Ventura, Esther travels down a tunnel before greeting her mother at its end.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of travels

Noun

Making short-haul rail more competitive Parallel argues that its system could open routes that are currently difficult for conventional rail services to serve economically, particularly journeys under 500 miles.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
But aspects such as strong characters, emotional investment, aspirational and authentic journeys, contemporary tensions, real moral dilemmas and complex relationships are what keep you there.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026