round trip
noun
variants
or less commonly roundtrip
or round-trip
plural round trips also roundtrips or round-trips
often attributive
: a trip to a place and back usually over the same route
It's a 25 mile round trip to work.
an hour-long round trip by boat
The lowest fare for the round trip is $1,694.18 including taxes and fees …—
Helen Anders and James Barragan
Helen Anders and James Barragan
round-trip
adjective
or less commonly roundtrip
round-trip fares
round-trip travel
With 50,000 miles accumulated, one can qualify for a free roundtrip ticket to Europe and back.
—David E. Rosenbaum
David E. Rosenbaum
round trip
adverb
or round-trip
or roundtrip
Consider the cost of flying round-trip for a three-day weekend to Los Angeles …
—Michael Fumento
Michael Fumento
Examples of round trip in a Sentence
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Since the state law took effect, LW now has to take time away from school to make a 10-hour round trip out of state to continue receiving care.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
Visitors will need to wait up to 20-30 minutes at a stop for the bus to make its round trip.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
This streamlined service provides private-flying ease and comfort at a fraction of the cost (a typical flight from Houston to Dallas costs about $500 round trip and gets you there in about an hour).
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters said that means only about 70 bicyclists per day use the bridge on weekdays, since most riders make round trips.
—Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
The ride is a three-hour round trip with a 15-minute layover at the historic 1912 Bertram Depot.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Nov. 2024
The train will offer 69 round trips, which is 29 more than last season.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
Those pandas returned to China on the same FedEx jet that then turned around and transported Bao Li and Qing Bao – a round trip of over 10,000 miles.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
My round trip from the closest parking to the trailhead in Yosemite Valley covered more than 18 miles and climbed more than 5,000 vertical feet, according to the fitness app Alltrails.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
Visitors will need to wait up to 20-30 minutes at a stop for the bus to make its round trip.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
This streamlined service provides private-flying ease and comfort at a fraction of the cost (a typical flight from Houston to Dallas costs about $500 round trip and gets you there in about an hour).
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters said that means only about 70 bicyclists per day use the bridge on weekdays, since most riders make round trips.
—Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
The ride is a three-hour round trip with a 15-minute layover at the historic 1912 Bertram Depot.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Nov. 2024
The train will offer 69 round trips, which is 29 more than last season.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
Those pandas returned to China on the same FedEx jet that then turned around and transported Bao Li and Qing Bao – a round trip of over 10,000 miles.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
My round trip from the closest parking to the trailhead in Yosemite Valley covered more than 18 miles and climbed more than 5,000 vertical feet, according to the fitness app Alltrails.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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