joyride
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Three boys turned a Waymo ride into a wind-in-their-hair joyride late Friday afternoon in Santa Monica.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Like Pitt hopping back into blockbuster fare, it must feel good to take a little joyride in the fast lane whenever you want, not having to be burdened by what’s in the rearview mirror.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
In November 2021, he went to Detroit and took the electric Hummer pickup truck for a joyride.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 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
And of course, that was a joyride, not a lesson.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
