trip synonyms
trip
n.
A journey
*A psychedelic experience
hallucinations, LSD trip, drug trip, pipe dream, being turned on; see also drug 2, indulgence 3.
trip most frequently implies a relatively short course of travel, although it is also commonly used as an equivalent for journeya vacation trip, a trip around the world; journey, a somewhat more formal word, generally implies travel of some length, usually over land the journey was filled with hardships; voyage, in current use, implies a relatively long journey by water or sometimes by air or through space a voyage across the Atlantic, a voyage to the moon; jaunt is applied to a short, casual trip taken for pleasure or recreation a jaunt to the city; expedition is applied to a journey, march, etc. taken by an organized group for some definite purpose a military expedition, a zoological expedition to Africa
trip
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Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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