off the beaten path

1. 1.

   not along the usual route

   “in order to experience something different, you need to go off the beaten path”

   Synonymsoff the beaten track

Questions about off the beaten path

What does off the beaten path mean?

off the beaten path means "not along the usual route".

What is another word for off the beaten path?

Close synonyms include off the beaten track. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is off the beaten path a common word?

off the beaten path is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.