off the beaten track

Questions about off the beaten track

What does off the beaten track mean?

off the beaten track means "remote from populous or much-traveled regions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for off the beaten track?

Close synonyms include out-of-the-way, out of the way, off the beaten path. 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 track a common word?

off the beaten track 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.