off the beaten track

Speech parts

1. off the beaten track - Adverb

2. off the beaten track - Phrase

3. off the beaten track - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not along the usual route

remote from populous or much-traveled regions

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

out-of-the-way off the beaten path far private lonesome unusual isolated remote distant obscure solitary deserted bizarre inaccessible lonely
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Antonyms

local close near handy coming alongside
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Related terms

off-track

Examples

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track. George Lucas

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah. Dominic Monaghan

Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. Karen Marie Moning

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track. Jenny Eclair

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group. Michael Palin

in order to experience something different, you need to go off the beaten path Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

off the beaten track

Close letter words and terms

off the bat off the beam off the beaten path off the bench off the black market off the board