Shunpiking:
Shunpiking is the act of deliberately avoiding roads that require payment of a fee or toll to travel on them, usually by traveling on alternate “free” roads which bypass the toll road. The term comes from the word shun, meaning “to avoid”, and pike, a term referring to turnpikes, which is another name for toll roads.[1] People who often avoid toll roads sometimes call themselves shunpikers. Historically, certain paths around tollbooths came to be so well-known they were called “shun-pikes”.[2]
Shunpiking has also come to mean an avoidance of major highways (regardless of tolls) in preference for bucolic and scenic interludes along lightly traveled country roads. [Wikipedia]
Encountered in conversation yesterday with my Arts Editor.
