round trip

noun

variants or less commonly roundtrip

ˈrau̇n(d)-ˌtrip 

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

On the New York to Pittsburgh round trip route, for example, baseline airfares start around 450 dollars, compared to roughly 225 dollars for train tickets and just 100 dollars for long distance bus tickets. — CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026

When picking up groceries requires a two-hour round trip, fresh produce can become a luxury. — Michelle Miller, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026

Government bond yields, which set a baseline for the borrowing costs of consumers and companies, have been on a round trip since the Fed’s last meeting. — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026

All of that material is currently hauled elsewhere for disposal, including round trips of about 200 miles to other biomass facilities. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for round trip

• airship
• airstrip
• clerkship
• courtship
• equip
• filmstrip
• flagship
• headship
• heirship
• judgeship
• kinship
• lightship