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Synonyms for trip

noun

  1. A journey

    voyage, excursion, tour; see journey.

  2. *A psychedelic experience

    hallucinations, LSD trip, drug trip, pipe dream, being turned on; see also drug 2, indulgence 3.

trip most frequently implies a relatively short course of travel, although it is also commonly used as an equivalent for journeya vacation trip, a trip around the world; journey, a somewhat more formal word, generally implies travel of some length, usually over land the journey was filled with hardships; voyage, in current use, implies a relatively long journey by water or sometimes by air or through space a voyage across the Atlantic, a voyage to the moon; jaunt is applied to a short, casual trip taken for pleasure or recreation a jaunt to the city; expedition is applied to a journey, march, etc. taken by an organized group for some definite purpose a military expedition, a zoological expedition to Africa

verb

  1. To stumble

    tumble, slip, lurch, slide, founder, fall, pitch, fall over, slip upon, plunge, sprawl, topple, go head over heels*.

    Antonyms arise*, ascend, get up.

  2. To cause to stumble

    block, hinder, bind, tackle, overthrow, push, send headlong, kick, shove, mislead.

    Antonyms help*, pick up, give a helping hand.

  3. To step lightly

    skip, play, frolic; see dance 1, 2, jump 1, 3.

See trip in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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