The word "joyride" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a recreational drive taken for pleasure, usually in someone else's vehicle. For example: "We decided to take a joyride around the city to enjoy the beautiful views."
Then, in 1999, the title track of Pink Moon was featured in a commercial for the Volkswagen Cabrio: young trendsetters on a night-time joyride, scored with the chronically depressed singer's lyrics about the meaninglessness of life.
For $200,000 a seat, customers will get a joyride just over the 100km-high (62-mile) Karman Line, which marks the boundary of space.
A campaign of harassment against the families of Iranians who work for the BBC's Persian station in London seems to have stopped.To show that they no longer regard him as a threat, the authorities recently took Mehdi Karroubi, a detained opposition leader, for a joyride and a good lunch in the countryside.
Stealing a car for a joyride used to be a "gateway crime", which would lead teenagers on to other crimes; now such escalation is restricted to Grand Theft Auto games (which, at least one study suggests, may themselves be reducing crime by keeping feisty young men occupied).Not all crime is falling.
Among the most-innovative works of fiction was Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers, a polyphonic novel of epic proportion in which a self-proclaimed "failed" writer named Joshua Cohen and the billionaire founder of a Google-like empire, also named Joshua Cohen, embark on a phantasmagoric joyride down the rabbit hole of the digital age.
In some instances an intention to deprive the owner of the property temporarily also is sufficient, as in the case of stealing a car for a "joyride" and then abandoning it in such a way that the owner is able to reclaim it.
"Jon took Jack on a whore- and drug-fuelled global joyride to see the Batman sets in London," claims the leaked document.
From the exhilarating pre-credits sequence, against the backdrop of the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City, to a spectacular denouement in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, Spectre is a proper joyride of a James Bond film.
For the avoidance of doubt, the coach who took the Wallabies to the 2003 World Cup final against considerable odds and helped guide the Springboks to victory four years later before giving an unfancied Japan side the joyride of a lifetime at this year's tournament, said he was committed to his new role.
Once parked, the cars can have a joyride which would also be a spectacle, adding to the urban fabric".
The woman and a male friend were returning home from seeing a movie at an upscale mall when they were tricked by the attackers into getting on the bus, which the men had taken out for a joyride.
