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daytrip

daytrip is the alternative form of day trip.

daytrip is the alternative form of day-trip.

Meaning of day trip

Noun

day trip (plural day trips)

  1. An excursion that lasts most of the day.
    Synonyms:
    daycation

Meaning 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

Forms of daytrip

Noun
pluraldaytrips
Verb
third-person singular presentdaytrips
present participledaytripping
past participledaytripped
pastdaytripped

Origin of daytrip

From day + trip.

Questions about daytrip

What is daytrip the alternative form of?
Daytrip is the alternative form of day trip.

Words near daytrip in the dictionary

  1. daytraded
  2. daytrader
  3. daytraders
  4. daytrades
  5. daytrading
  6. daytrip
  7. daytripped
  8. daytripper
  9. daytrippers
  10. daytripping
  11. daytrips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daytrip (page history and authors); day trip (page history and authors); day-trip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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