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

I'd call them and say, "I just saw this movie, "The Velvet Vampire," and she's driving around in a dune buggy. Remember dune buggies? Hey, let's have Peggy drive a dune buggy."

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2023

The last three flights carried a dune buggy, the Lunar Rover, a lightweight battery-powered car that enabled the astronauts to travel several miles from their point of landing.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins