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

By February of 2003, the S&P made a virtual round trip to 841, and didn’t breach 1500 once again until a decade later. —Luba Kassova, Fortune, 7 July 2024

That would be six years of round trips from Mojave to La Cañada. —Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024

In order for a round trip to be possible at all, at least two roads must lead to each city. —Heinrich Hemme, Scientific American, 20 June 2024

One study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found that mice exposed to a dose of radiation meant to simulate a round trip to Mars experienced kidney damage and dysfunction. —Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2024

Make sure to check out Greeter Falls, accessible via a one-mile round trip out-and-back hike. —Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 4 July 2024

Both take about three hours round trip, including a one-hour stop at the summit so guests can disembark, explore the peak, and take plenty of pictures. —Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2024

For example, a 13-day Norwegian itinerary that begins in Cape Town on Dec. 7 and ends in Mauritius on Dec. 20 has prices that start at $899 per person for an inside stateroom, but flights can be well over $1,000 round trip. —Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024

How to spend it: Transfer the points to Iberia to fly round trip in business class to Madrid from Boston, Chicago, or New York on off-peak dates for just 68,000 miles or from West Coast hubs for 95,000 miles. —Carly Helfand, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above