car chase

plural car chases

1. roadA chase, usually high-speed, between people in two or more cars or other vehicles, normally between the police or other law enforcement and an offender.

   What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.

   2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC

   1 more example

   Eventually, Monster Trucks sends its heroes racing against an evil corporation, on a mission to save Creech, his family, and the environment in general (which makes Creech’s appetite for sweet, sweet oil an especially puzzling detail) and to prove that car chases in kids’ movies can still proceed with the casual disregard for human life that adult audiences demand.

   2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A Literal Monster Truck is Far from the Stupidest Thing about Monster Trucks”, in The A.V. Club