shopping trips

Outings for purchases

Shopping trips are outings made primarily to browse or purchase goods.

The phrase emphasizes the journey aspect—leaving home, visiting stores, and returning—rather than just the act of buying: We made weekly shopping trips to the mall.

A shopping trip may be routine errands or a planned expedition to a particular destination: Our shopping trip to IKEA took the whole afternoon.

Opposites
activity purpose

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Scheduled employment periods

manufacturing · supply runs · farming

commerce channel

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Internet-based retail activity

e-commerce · home delivery · staying home · subscription services

domestic activity

shopping tripsstaying home

Not going out

staycations · home organization · domestic chores · home cooking · making do

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G