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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This free, family and easy walk is good for all ages but may take one-and-a-half hours round trip on the trail.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
The Rapid Rewards program was launched in 1996, and was originally designed to provide a free round-trip after a passenger completed eight round trips, according to the company's annual report from the year.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2025
However, the total length of the round trip hike is approx.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
That included a 6,000-mile round trip for the final in Baku (albeit both teams were faced with that logistical challenge).
—Conor O'Neill, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
The ship’s maiden voyage from New York to Cornwall, England, in 1952 broke the record for the fastest transatlantic round trip ever sailed—a title the vessel holds to this day.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Three-mile round trip to seasonal waterfall on Little Yosemite Trail.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025
For a limited time, American Airlines is making a round trip flight to Sydney, Australia from the U.S. starting at $899, and one-way flights starting at only 30,000 miles.
—Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
Schwartz and Beheshti were preparing to blast these organoids with different levels of radiation: one dose to simulate the radiation from a lunar mission, and a second, higher dose to approximate a round trip to Mars.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
The Rapid Rewards program was launched in 1996, and was originally designed to provide a free round-trip after a passenger completed eight round trips, according to the company's annual report from the year.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2025
However, the total length of the round trip hike is approx.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
That included a 6,000-mile round trip for the final in Baku (albeit both teams were faced with that logistical challenge).
—Conor O'Neill, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
The ship’s maiden voyage from New York to Cornwall, England, in 1952 broke the record for the fastest transatlantic round trip ever sailed—a title the vessel holds to this day.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Three-mile round trip to seasonal waterfall on Little Yosemite Trail.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025
For a limited time, American Airlines is making a round trip flight to Sydney, Australia from the U.S. starting at $899, and one-way flights starting at only 30,000 miles.
—Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
Schwartz and Beheshti were preparing to blast these organoids with different levels of radiation: one dose to simulate the radiation from a lunar mission, and a second, higher dose to approximate a round trip to Mars.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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