Meaning of trip In English

• 0 a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again:

  • The trip from York to Newcastle takes about an hour by train.

  • We're going on a trip to Norway this summer.

  • I thought we might hire a motorboat and take a trip round/around the bay.

  • mainly UK We can't afford another trip abroad this year.

  • It's a ten-mile trip from the airport to the hotel.

  • She's away on a business trip and won't be back until next week.

  • Do you want to go on the school trip to France this year?

  • I was thinking we could go on a shopping trip to New York this weekend.

• 1 an occasion when you knock your foot against something and fall or lose your balance, or someone causes you to do this, when you are walking or running:

  • She broke her ankle when she had a nasty trip on the stairs.

• 2 an experience in which someone sees, hears, or feels things that do not exist as a result of taking an illegal drug:

  • If you take this stuff when you're depressed, you'll have a really bad trip.

  • My science teacher is such a trip - he says the most bizarre things.

  • She's been on a real power trip since she became the office manager.

  • I suffer from the classic working mother's guilt trip.

• 3 to lose your balance after knocking your foot against something when you are walking or running, or to cause someone to do this:

  • He tripped and fell down, grazing his knee.

  • That cable is dangerous. Someone might trip over it.

  • He was sent off for deliberately tripping Robson when he was about to score.

• 4 to move with quick, gentle steps:

  • She looked stunning as she tripped down the stairs in her ball gown.

• 5 to move a switch that operates an electrical system, or to cause such a system to start or stop working by moving a switch:

  • A special system prevents the circuitry from being tripped accidentally by a power surge or lightning strike.

• 6 to experience the effects of taking an illegal drug that causes the user to see, hear, or feel things that do not exist:

  • As a student he spent a lot of time tripping out on LSD.

• 7 an occasion on which someone goes to a place and returns from it, or the act of traveling from one place to another:

  • a camping/shopping trip

  • We plan to take a trip out west later this year.

  • They went on a three-week trip to Europe.

  • Alejandro had to make a number of business trips to New York.

• 8 a strongly felt experience:

  • What a trip this book is!

• 9 to lose your balance because your foot hits against something when you are walking or running, or to cause someone to lose his or her balance:

  • [ I ] He injured his ankle when he tripped over a water sprinkler while jogging.

  • [ I ] She nearly tripped on the rug.

• 10 a journey to a place, where you stay for a short time, and then come back again:

  • go on/make/take a trip She always flies business class when she goes on trips to the US.

• 11 a part of a journey to or back from a place:

  • the outward/return trip The trucks are being loaded for the return trip.