A vacation period that includes one or more of the days preceding or following a weekend, in addition to the Saturday and Sunday.
we went to Paris for a long weekend
Example sentencesExamples
- I'd been concerned about getting as far as possible before the dreaded long weekend traffic blocked up all the roads, but it just didn't seem to happen this weekend.
- I was spending a long weekend in Skegness.
- New Zealanders flock here for long weekends and nominate it as the city they'd most like to live in.
- Ireland's capital city makes a good destination for a long weekend city break.
- I'm off to the beaches for a long weekend.
- We're enjoying last-minute long weekends in Barcelona and Paris with increasing regularity.
- We got a lovely invite from my cousin to go up to Wales for the Easter long weekend.
- The temptation to spend idyllic long weekends in the British countryside is enough to get most of us dragging suitcases out of the loft.
- The long weekend began with gorgeous weather as thousands were flocking out of the city.
- Once I leave here this evening, I'm on a long weekend and won't be back in the office until Tuesday.