joyride
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"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
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
The announcement, which features Stitch taking a joyride in a pink convertible through Walt Disney Studios, is basically a victory lap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
Coach Brian Dutcher rejected the premise that their first loss might be a blessing in disguise that would relieve pressure, making it clear the Aztecs view themselves as established winners rather than joyriding upstarts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2020
David Wiesner is the triply Caldecotted king of this genre: Tuesday, in which a crew of frogs go joyriding on their levitating lily pads, is my particular favorite, and Flotsam is great too.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 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
