take the road—follow a particular route:
- We stayed high and took the road that followed the contours of the mountainside.
take to the road—
1. set out; get on the way:
- I got back in the van, finished my ice cream and then took to the road.
2. = take the road:
- Jonathan Butts in a buggy, took to the road that runs between Palo Alto and Mayfield.
3. become a tramp:
- Cook did not take to the road through want, but rather from what the psychiatrists call “maladjustment.”