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day-trip

day-trip verb: to go on a one-day excursion; To visit someplace and return within a day. Also the alternative form of day trip.

Verb

day-trip (third-person singular simple present day-trips, present participle day-tripping, simple past and past participle day-tripped)

  1. To go on a one-day excursion; To visit someplace and return within a day.
    • Been day-tripping to the market and around the city for big sun hats, sundries and sights.1984 April 28, Loie Hayes, “Passionate Politics in Nicaragua”, in Gay Community News, page 8
    • From Polly, we day-tripped to Koma and Malberg under a gorgeous blue sky and then traveled up the Lady Chain to Beth, where we camped near the rock cliff next to the portage on the east shore.2011, Stephen Wilbers, A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, →ISBN

Also used as

day-trip is also the alternative form of day trip.

Examples of day-trip in a sentence

  • Before I met Tommy, I would not have day-tripped to the spot where James Dean died.2015 -, Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist, →ISBN:
  • By the end of the summer, I had day-tripped with Quita around New England and ferried to Martha's Vineyard with Carol.2017, Melinda Worth Popham, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, →ISBN:

Forms of day-trip

Verb
third-person singular presentday-trips
present participleday-tripping
past participleday-tripped
pastday-tripped
Noun
pluralday-trips

Questions about day-trip

What does day-trip mean?
Day-trip means to go on a one-day excursion; To visit someplace and return within a day.
How do you use day-trip in a sentence?
Before I met Tommy, I would not have day-tripped to the spot where James Dean died.
What part of speech is day-trip?
Day-trip is a verb.
What is the past tense of day-trip?
The past tense of day-trip is day-tripped.

Words near day-trip in the dictionary

  1. day-trader
  2. day-traders
  3. day-trades
  4. day-trading
  5. day-tradings
  6. day-trip
  7. day-tripped
  8. day-tripper
  9. day-trippers
  10. day-tripping
  11. day-trips

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