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 Prescott hike: Big Rock Canyon Length: 8 miles round trip. Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024 From March 31, Chinese carriers will be able to fly 50 weekly round trips to and from the United States, up from 35 currently, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a statement Monday. Laura He, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024 For the spring and most of the summer, six of them lived together in a Logan apartment and worked 18-hour days, regularly making the three-hour round trip to the Salt Lake City airport to collect prospects for campus visits. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024 Wyandotte County Lake Loop Trail At a healthy 9.2 miles round trip, this Kansas City, Kansas loop offers a beautiful break from the city. Cora Hall, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024 Inter Miami will fly round trip to El Salvador, round trip to Dallas, then to Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Tokyo before returning home to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024 Advertisement Buses either need to make a round trip on a single charge, or campuses will have to install enough chargers for visiting schools. Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023 The overnight journeys between New York and Chicago are $1,600 for a one-way trip and $3,200 for a round trip. Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024 See more about the trains and get tickets starting at $70 round trip for adults and $36 for children at thetrain.com. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 29 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of round trip was in 1837

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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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