JOYRIDES Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

joyrides 1 of 2

noun

plural of joyride

as in conveyances

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joyrides

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of joyride

as in cuts up

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as in automobiles

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Noun

As a global chief, Daunt gets around by subway and other unkingly conveyances.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
The proposal would have generally banned e-bikes and other e-conveyances from playgrounds, parks and school grounds unless signs specifically allowed them.

— Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of conveyances

Verb

After Szabo cuts up Matt’s face in one of many graphic scenes, the actor loses his career and just about everything else in his life.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026
The New England Aquarium research scientist cuts up frozen Atlantic menhaden, known locally as pogies, secures them to circle hooks attached to several fishing rods, and casts them into the shallow water.

— Asia London Palomba, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of cuts up

Noun

His death appeared to be the first fatality involving a horse carriage in Central Park since the rides began.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Lee, emerging from the dark woods beyond McMann’s cabin, gets picked up by a guy who nicknames himself the Boontill Oracle, a do-gooder who waits outside highway bars to give safe rides to local drunks.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of rides

Noun

Support regional military airlift KONA is intended to occupy a space between light utility aircraft, such as the Cessna C-208, and larger tactical transports such as the C-130.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
The Proust Effect — named for a scene in French author Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time where a bite of madeleine and tea transports the protagonist back to childhood — is the psychological concept that names this process.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of transports

Verb

According to McGrady, the only royal who didn’t enjoy the time away in the Highlands was the late Princess Diana, who didn’t fit in with the family’s outdoorsy vibes and didn’t enjoy riding horses around the property due to a fall as a child.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
Ortiz navigated past 17 other horses around the final turn and made a hard charge down the stretch.

— Stephen Whyno, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026

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