round trip

noun

ˈrau̇n(d)-ˌtrip 

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

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

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

Examples of round trip in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. —Dan Kotlyar, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024

The 11 domestic routes Hopper tracked with fares below $100 round trip is the lowest number of destinations with cheap base fares from Phoenix since February, when Hopper tracked 10 routes under $100. —Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024

This side trek makes the journey about 7.5 miles round trip. —Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

Now with the diversion to Virginia, the round trip is almost a thousand miles which increases the costs to $2,000 to cover the fuel and time on the road. —Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024

The train ride is 4½ hours round trip, and riders have three hours to see the South Rim. Passengers ride historic rail cars that range from open-air 1920s-era Pullman cars to luxury dome and parlor cars from the 1950s, Langner said. —Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024

Hike to High Dune: A 2.5-mile round trip that offers panoramic views. —Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

Simply register for the promotion and then purchase a qualifying Southwest flight, which can be either one round trip or two one-way qualifying flights by the end of September 5, 2024. —Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024

Go from Detroit to Mexico City, round trip, for under $500. —Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above