school run
noun1
UK 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?
1 more example
- 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.2006 April 30, Cole Moreton, “The school run”, in The Independent: