on the road

1. 1.

   travelling about

   “they took the show on the road”

   “they lost all their games on the road”

   Synonymson tour

   Broadertravel

Questions about on the road

What does on the road mean?

on the road means "travelling about".

What is another word for on the road?

Close synonyms include on tour. 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 on the road a common word?

on the road 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.