The word 'carsick' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a feeling of nausea or dizziness caused by riding in a car for a long time. For example, "After hours of driving, she got carsick and had to take a break."
The boy in the back was carsick and began to vomit.
Invariably, our crappy car would catch fire on steep grades (my sister's job was to douse the transmission hump with water when she saw the carpet fibres smoldering), plus with the seven of us kids all piled on top of one another somebody was always carsick and ralphing in the back seat.
"They're like, 'We're fighting for your right to protest — so go home!' " "We should infiltrate them!" "Hey, are you O.K.?" Rapchik was lying in the aisle, carsick, but eventually she roused herself.
Because Sonny tended to get carsick, I stayed at the B. and B. with him while Yonas drove Katya around the city getting letters to prove who she was and who Sonny was, translations of these letters into English or Amharic, and a birth certificate, a passport, and a visa for Sonny.
He becomes carsick from the smell of gasoline and he and his mother get off and walk the rest of the way home.
"I'm feeling a little carsick," I said, finally, as we shot into a tunnel.
On one of these larger roads, just as I noticed a sign for a village called Dunston, a large trailer rumbled past us at speed, and whether from the shock of that overtaking vehicle, or because I had eaten nothing that morning, or perhaps due to some uneasiness brought about by Jason's stories, I felt carsick for the first time in my life.
One of the girls got carsick.
Some enterprising publisher is bound to scoop up the best of these observations and issue a queasy-making anthology: "Carsick: A Global Reader".
And then as my mother and my father tried to enlist us in a silly song about the new year and my brother complained that he was carsick even though he wasn't in the car — all in loud Persian — I realized the dining room, everyone a pink-faced blond except us, had gone silent and all eyes were looking our way.
I get carsick, you know?" How's this guy who likes to sit alone in a bar at 2 in the afternoon ever going to make it for 10 days with 21 people?
