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# trip

«trip» in Mova's school dictionary: **a journey to a place and back, often short: a school trip** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (trip, trips, tripped, tripping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A trip is a journey to a place and back, often short: a school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#m1)

2) To trip is to catch your foot on something and almost fall or fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#m2)

3) To trip someone up is to make them fall, or to make them make a mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#m3)

4) A round trip is going and coming back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#m4)

5) Trip can also mean to walk or dance with quick, light steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a journey with distance, cost or time; trips counted and multiplied by distance or cost; «round trip» is twice one way. School: field trip, school trip, permission slip. Safety: tidy toys away so nobody trips over them. Everyday: day trip, business trip, «have a good trip».

### examples

- The trip to the zoo is 30 miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x1)
- The bus makes 4 trips a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x2)
- Each trip costs 3 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x3)
- A round trip is 2 times the distance one way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x4)
- Our class went on a trip to the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x5)
- Mind you don't trip over the cable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x6)
- He tripped on the step and fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x7)
- Have a good trip! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x8)
- They tripped about in the cabbage garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/#x9)

### note

Countable noun; verb doubles the p: tripped, tripping. Trips are often counted and multiplied by distance or cost. Trap: «round trip» is twice one way.

### In the corpora

- [Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/6/)
- [Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/5/)
- [Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/17/)
- [You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/0/)
- [I ought to stick by Toad till this trip is ended.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.