joyride

Last October, a similar inflatable pumpkin went on a windy joyride, rolling into traffic and briefly “attacking” an officer before being wrangled back into submission.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

In November 2021, he went to Detroit and took the electric Hummer pickup truck for a joyride.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

Critics, including model-actor Emily Ratajkowski, slammed the celebrity joyride as wasteful and performative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

When I lived in Santiago, Chile, last year, one young passenger jumped on a luggage belt and took a joyride.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

“You would think the devil would have more important things to do than take a Subaru for a joyride on a Saturday night.”

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Meanwhile, on Facebook someone responded to her post about the theft, saying they had seen the car being joyridden around a nearby estate and that it had been recorded on their CCTV.

From BBC ● May 29, 2022

"They can be seen driving through the village waving GAA flags in a fashion which could best be described as joyriding while using the siren improperly," the North Antrim MP continued.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024

And poachers arrive like joyriding fools oblivious to natural grace of the gibbons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

In his opening speech to the General Assembly, a grim Guterres highlighted the gap between the rich and poor with “billionaires joyriding to space while millions go hungry on Earth.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

On Instagram, Galbo hand-drew a comic strip about an ironically named “Safety Cat,” whose adventures in playground construction and joyriding always end one panel before an implied disaster.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2019

“That’d be a pretty good trick. I knew uglies who used to go joyriding, but not in Special Circumstances hovercars.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld