joyride

"War on deadly joyride vids" reads the headline of the Sun, which says the prime minister has slammed the "truly reprehensible" TikTok trend.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

Last October, a similar inflatable pumpkin went on a windy joyride, rolling into traffic and briefly “attacking” an officer before being wrangled back into submission.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

In November 2021, he went to Detroit and took the electric Hummer pickup truck for a joyride.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

“You would think the devil would have more important things to do than take a Subaru for a joyride on a Saturday night.”

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

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

Like joyriding into the suborbit while millions face evictions and homelessness amid a pandemic, the premise of the new Hulu drama “Nine Perfect Strangers” is proudly, if not defiantly, out of touch.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021

Skin opens with a portrait of a father, a mother, and their young son, attending backwoods shooting sessions and joyriding a couch tied to the back of a truck.

From Slate ● Feb. 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