dune buggy

NOUN

recreation motor vehicle used especially to drive on sand

Synonyms

WEAK

beach buggy

Example Sentences

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Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

And it was evident when a dune buggy then screeched onto the field carrying Butch T. Cougar and Benny Beaver, who disembarked carrying the other school’s flag.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

I jump into a dune buggy driven by Levav Weinberg - an apple farmer in the northern-most Israeli town of Metula.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023

Newman is a hoot: She tools around town in a dune buggy, procures lunch by stealing other people’s DoorDash orders and fakes IBS more than once to get out of a fix.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements