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

Up to 30 percent off promotion code savings valid for one-way or round trip Wanna Get Away® and Wanna Get Away Plus® fares booked on Southwest.com® or swabiz.com from December 2-5, 2024, 11:59 p.m. —Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

But poor road conditions in Wisconsin prompted the organizers to settle for a more modest 54-mile round trip from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. —Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2024

The drive to the trailhead off FR 152 often requires four-wheel drive and the trail is 11 miles round trip. —Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024

And some Navajo Nation residents must travel nearly 150 miles round trip to vote. —Christopher Lomahquahu and Eshaan Sarup, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024

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

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above