day trip

noun

: a journey in which a person goes to visit a place and then returns home on the same day

Examples of day trip in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After weeks of delays, NASA is finally poised for the launch of a historic flight this week to send a crew of four astronauts on a trailblazing nine-day trip around the moon and back. —William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026

Democratic Senators Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire) and Jacky Rosen (Nevada) and Republican Senators John Curtis (Utah) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) on Monday met with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te at the start of a two-day trip focused on bolstering the two sides’ informal ties. —ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026

The mission will send four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon and back again. —Tariq Malik, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026

During the burn, Orion’s service module, which provides the spacecraft with power, propulsion and thermal control, will give the capsule a big push to embark on a four-day trip around the moon before completing a figure eight to return to Earth. —Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for day trip

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