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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure; "they took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars" v
1: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" [syn: joyride, tool, tool around]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1909 1. a ride taken for pleasure (as in a car or aircraft); especially an automobile ride marked by reckless driving (as in a stolen car) 2. conduct or action resembling a joyride especially in disregard of cost or consequences • joyride intransitive verb • joyrider noun • joyriding noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. colloq. --n. a ride for pleasure in a motor car, esp. without the owner's permission. --v.intr. (past -rode; past part. -ridden) Derivatives: joyrider n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also joy ride(joyrides) If someone goes on a joyride, they steal a car and drive around in it at high speed. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Sunday drive, airing, bicycle, bike, bus, catch a train, chauffeur, cycle, drive, entrain, go by rail, lift, make a train, motor, motorcycle, pedal, pickup, ride, spin, take a joyride, taxi, wheel, whirl