jaunt
IPA: dʒˈɔnt
noun
- (archaic) A wearisome journey.
- A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
verb
- (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
- (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
- (transitive, obsolete) To jolt; to jounce.
- (obsolete) To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.
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Examples of "jaunt" in Sentences
- He began to tour, including a solo jaunt.
- I'm on a bit of a sources jaunt at the moment.
- It was one of the memorable jaunts in my life.
- He jaunts back to The Lab, and inform John and Carol.
- He once went for a jaunt around the world in a 1928 Bentley.
- John and Stephen jaunt up to the spaceship, leaving Carol behind.
- In 1973 it travelled for its first overseas jaunt the United States.
- At Havana, they disembarked and made the final 23 mile jaunt on foot.
- Over breakfast, Oliver suggests they jaunt off to Paris for the weekend.
- Jimmy's fast talking gets them the use of a speedboat for an ocean jaunt.
- Don Palomares (when did you become a DON?), No we haven't made the jaunt from the airport before.
- The most scenic jaunt is the St. Mary Lake tour, which departs from the Rising Sun Boat Dock ($22 per person).
- Summer Spain jaunt: The first lady's advisers told her it was not a great idea to take a luxury international vacation in the dog days of summer, when most Americans were planning low-budget staycations.