roadtrip

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A form of road trip — A recreational or impromptu excursion in a car, usually at long distances from one's home.

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

nounroadtrip (plural roadtrips)

plural roadtrips

  1. alternativeAlternative form of road trip.

    You can reduce your mileage by walking or riding a bike on short errands, moving closer to work, and renting a vehicle for long roadtrips.

    2002, Tere Drenth, “Preserving Your Car’s Resale Value”, in fastread Buying and Leasing a Car: All the Steps You Need to Know to Get the Car You Want, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media Corporation, →ISBN, page 86
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    There were times when we almost forgot about her as she sat quietly reading picture books and playing with small toys taken from her Sesame Street rucksack; it was only on the few occasions when she requested yet another spin of her nursery rhyme cassette that we were brought back to the reality of family roadtrips.

    1998, Darren Short, An Invitation from Uncle Sam: A British Family’s Year of Survival in Suburban USA, Orpington: Anglo-Minnesotan Books, →ISBN, page 252

    We had already broadcast our first roadtrip documentary on public television, so we went back to the same programmers and approached them with a new idea—“What if we shot an annual documentary series about these student roadtrips that are happening every summer and then aired it on public television?[…]”

    2005, Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, Nathan Gebhard, “The Roadtrip Nation Story”, in Finding the Open Road: A Guide to Self-Construction Rather than Mass Production (A Roadtrip Nation Book), Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 08
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APA

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MLA

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