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
Examples of road trip in a Sentence
The team won three of five games on its road trip.
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The film, directed and written by Shai Carmeli Pollak and produced by Baher Agbariya, follows a young boy’s road trip from his home of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to the coastal city of Tel Aviv.
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Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
In the Season 2 premiere, the local police calls with an address, but Morgan can't leave her kids while the Game Maker is still a threat, so Oz and their fellow officer Daphne Forrester (Javicia Leslie) make the road trip to the motel where Roman is supposedly living.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Boston’s remaining schedule – Athletics at Fenway Park, a road trip to Tampa and Toronto, and a closing trio at home with the Detroit Tigers – is among the most difficult in Major League Baseball.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
But destiny and a magical GPS system have reunited them on a road trip of the soul, on which boy and girl will reconcile themselves with their hang-ups and traumas and, just maybe, learn to love one another.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
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Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
In the Season 2 premiere, the local police calls with an address, but Morgan can't leave her kids while the Game Maker is still a threat, so Oz and their fellow officer Daphne Forrester (Javicia Leslie) make the road trip to the motel where Roman is supposedly living.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Boston’s remaining schedule – Athletics at Fenway Park, a road trip to Tampa and Toronto, and a closing trio at home with the Detroit Tigers – is among the most difficult in Major League Baseball.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
But destiny and a magical GPS system have reunited them on a road trip of the soul, on which boy and girl will reconcile themselves with their hang-ups and traumas and, just maybe, learn to love one another.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for road trip
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“Road trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20trip. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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