What does "rolê" mean?

An outing / hanging out / a trip around town.

Language: 🇧🇷 Brazil
Say it: ho-LEH
Register: Friends & informal

How it's actually used

Any casual outing: a night out, a walk, a drive with no clear destination. "Dar um rolê" means to go out and do something. A "rolê" can be tiny (coffee) or all day.

Examples

Vamos dar um rolê hoje à noite? Want to go out tonight?
Foi um rolê tranquilo. It was a chill outing.

Where it comes from

From the French "rôle" through Brazilian street slang. In Rio the "r" sounds like an English "h".

Before you say it

Very informal. It is also slang for something shady in some regions ("rolê estranho" = a weird scene), so context matters.

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Now actually use it out loud

Reading a definition isn't the same as saying it to someone. Lingo Kaiava is a voice tutor set to Brazilian Portuguese — it uses rolê the way locals do, corrects you in the moment, and never "fixes" the way real people actually talk into textbook Brazilian Portuguese.