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

ˈrōd-ˈtrip 

intransitive verb

Examples of road trip in a Sentence

The team won three of five games on its road trip.

Recent Examples on the Web

Decked out in matching Route 66 button-up shirts that featured a map of the iconic road, the married couple set out on a road trip to celebrate the centennial. —Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026

At the center of the show is Frances’s experimental documentary, Flat Earth, which takes the girls on a cross-country road trip, where red America and blue America begin to look like different brands of the same competing hallucination. —Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026

Scoggin was kicked off the Nebraska team a few days after teammates discovered her, fully clothed, in Love’s room during a road trip. —Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026

Eight stops, one coastline, a thousand stories — that’s the East Coast road trip worth taking. —Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for road trip

• airship
• airstrip
• clerkship
• courtship
• equip
• filmstrip
• flagship
• gunship
• headship
• heirship
• judgeship
• kinship