road trip

noun

1
: a trip taken by a sports team to play one or more away games
2
: an extended trip in a motor vehicle
road-trip intransitive verb

Examples of road trip in a Sentence

The team won three of five games on its road trip.
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White Sox 15, Twins 2 Starting pitcher performance After giving up six runs — five earned — in his start to begin this road trip, rookie southpaw Connor Prielipp gave up another six runs on Wednesday. Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 28 May 2026 Pawlikowski proceeded to re-imagine the event as a five-day road trip, and was assisted by Henk Handloegten to fashion a very personal and largely fictional story. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 May 2026 Wednesday’s game was the Royals’ last chance to muster a win against Aaron Judge and company before another 10-game road trip. Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2026 One man who was on a cross-country road trip with friends told WBZ-TV his friends from back home in California had called him to check in. Kristina Rex, CBS News, 27 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for road trip

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of road trip was in 1953

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“Road trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20trip. Accessed 29 May. 2026.

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