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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Getting there required a short train ride to Pollokshaws West, about 10 minutes from Glasgow Central for £3 round trip (about $4).
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 June 2026
Typically on papal trips, the Italian national carrier ITA Airways brings the pope to his destination and that country’s national carrier brings him home, with ITA sometimes doing the round trip if the voyage is particularly long or to a place that doesn’t have the capacity.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
That would account for the distance of more than 200 round trip journeys to the moon — which NASA says sits an average of 238,855 miles (nearly 384,400 kilometers) away from Earth.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 June 2026
That’s more than 16 hours worth of driving the hour and half round trip — all during one weekend in June for USA Dance’s Kansas City Dance Classic.
—Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
Hilton had arranged this 3,800-mile round trip from London for the sole purpose of generating these images.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2026
And a round trip from Detroit to Mackinaw City, in a vehicle that gets 27 mph, would cost just under $89 for gas, AAA says.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 8 June 2026
The flight was $400 round trip.
—Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
First class Etihad Apartments; Singapore Suites; combing first class on Airbus A380s on all the major Gulf airlines in a single trip; combining six different airline first class products in a single round trip.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 June 2026
Typically on papal trips, the Italian national carrier ITA Airways brings the pope to his destination and that country’s national carrier brings him home, with ITA sometimes doing the round trip if the voyage is particularly long or to a place that doesn’t have the capacity.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
That would account for the distance of more than 200 round trip journeys to the moon — which NASA says sits an average of 238,855 miles (nearly 384,400 kilometers) away from Earth.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 June 2026
That’s more than 16 hours worth of driving the hour and half round trip — all during one weekend in June for USA Dance’s Kansas City Dance Classic.
—Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
Hilton had arranged this 3,800-mile round trip from London for the sole purpose of generating these images.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2026
And a round trip from Detroit to Mackinaw City, in a vehicle that gets 27 mph, would cost just under $89 for gas, AAA says.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 8 June 2026
The flight was $400 round trip.
—Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
First class Etihad Apartments; Singapore Suites; combing first class on Airbus A380s on all the major Gulf airlines in a single trip; combining six different airline first class products in a single round trip.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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