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 time, stocks have basically made a round trip in less than two months.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
This eight-mile round trip hike starts in a sitka spruce forest on boardwalks before hitting switchbacks down to the beach itself.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 29 May 2025
Windows Loop Trail is about 1.2 miles round trip near Moab, according to AllTrails.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Last week a quartet of British climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest—and spent less than a week on the total round trip from London.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
JetBlue currently operates about 180 round trips a day at JFK.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
And gray whales can travel 14,000 miles round trip between Russian feeding grounds and breeding grounds in Baja California.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 21 May 2025
That means the round trip flight from Doha to Florida of about 30 hours in the air — not including the time on the ground — could have cost perhaps as much as $1 million for a charter.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2025
The Splendor departed Sydney on Monday for an eight-day round trip cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, Carnival Cruise stated.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 23 May 2025
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Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
This eight-mile round trip hike starts in a sitka spruce forest on boardwalks before hitting switchbacks down to the beach itself.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 29 May 2025
Windows Loop Trail is about 1.2 miles round trip near Moab, according to AllTrails.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Last week a quartet of British climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest—and spent less than a week on the total round trip from London.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
JetBlue currently operates about 180 round trips a day at JFK.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
And gray whales can travel 14,000 miles round trip between Russian feeding grounds and breeding grounds in Baja California.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 21 May 2025
That means the round trip flight from Doha to Florida of about 30 hours in the air — not including the time on the ground — could have cost perhaps as much as $1 million for a charter.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2025
The Splendor departed Sydney on Monday for an eight-day round trip cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, Carnival Cruise stated.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 23 May 2025
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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