take the road

1. 1.

   give theatrical performances while traveling from town to town

   Broadertour

Questions about take the road

What does take the road mean?

take the road means "give theatrical performances while traveling from town to town".

Is take the road a common word?

take 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.