off-road

See also: offroad

English

Etymology

From off- +‎ road.

Adjective

off-road (not comparable)

1. Designed for, used for, or taking place on a driving surface that is not traditionally paved, such as a beach or rugged terrain.
   • 2025 May 4, Stacey Sloughfy, “How California's Upcoming State Ban Will Impact RVs And Camping Trips”, in The Travel‎:

     At the heart of this effort is Assembly Bill 1346, signed into law in 2021, which targets small off-road engines (SOREs) like gas-powered generators, lawnmowers, and leaf blowers.

2. Synonym of off-street.

   off-road parking

Synonyms

• (Designed for driving on rugged terrain): all-terrain

Derived terms

• off-roader

Translations

designed for driving on a rugged terrain

Catalan: tot terreny Chinese: Mandarin: 越野 (zh) (yuèyě) Finnish: maasto- (fi), maastokelpoinen French: tout-terrain (fr) m or f German: geländegängig (de) Greek: παντός εδάφους n (pantós edáfous) Hungarian: terepjáró (hu) Russian: вездехо́дный (ru) (vezdexódnyj), внедоро́жный (ru) (vnedoróžnyj) Spanish: todoterreno (es) Swedish: terränggående

Verb

off-road (third-person singular simple present off-roads, present participle off-roading, simple past and past participle off-roaded)

1. (intransitive) To travel in rugged terrain instead of on a paved track.

Translations

travel in rugged terrain

Chinese: Mandarin: 越野行駛 / 越野行驶 (yuèyě xíngshǐ) Finnish: kulkea maastossa French: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• affoord