Sunday driver

noun

plural Sunday drivers

: a person who drives slowly and leisurely or overcautiously

… when I have the time and really want to enjoy the view, I go the other way, the back way. I drive country roads whenever I can. You can have all that craziness on the interstate. Sure, if you want to nit-pick, I'm a Sunday driver. Darn proud of it too!

—Steve Kark

Highway driving is not necessarily anxiety provoking (the occasional Sunday driver notwithstanding).

—Theodore Modis

… running the bases with the caution of a Sunday driver caught up in the Indy 500…

—Hudson Bridges

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above