school run

English

Noun

school run (plural school runs)

  1. (chiefly British) A period of increased traffic where parents or carers take or collect children to and from school by car; a journey for this purpose during this period.
    The roads are crammed with parents on the school run.
    Would you mind doing the school run for James this morning?
    • 2006 April 30, Cole Moreton, “The school run”, in The Independent‎[1]:
      A billion trips are made on the school run every year and, between us, parents produce two million extra tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming.
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