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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An $80 round trip to see the World Cup, in addition to shelling out for tickets is well out of reach.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Typically, special event trains to Gillette Stadium for New England Patriots games, New England Revolution matches and concerts are $20 round trip.
—Neal Riley, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
The cheapest Friday-to-Tuesday round trip from Tucson costs more than $1,200 with a stop in Phoenix, according to Google Flights.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
Microbes could make a sun-Venus round trip with the right amount of power, but the journey would demand different amounts of it in each direction, says Chad Orzel, a physicist at Union College.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
Launched in November, the Blue Jasmine journeys between Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong Station and Chiang Mai on nine-day round trips with limited departures, threading through rice paddies and mountain landscapes.
—Terry Ward, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
And with a 2 ½-hour round trip to bring detainees to the nearest ICE jail in Springfield, that time can add up.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
Someone now paying $10 in fees, round trip, would pay $24, or 140% more.
—Jason Henry, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
The Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha line currently makes six round trips daily.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Typically, special event trains to Gillette Stadium for New England Patriots games, New England Revolution matches and concerts are $20 round trip.
—Neal Riley, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
The cheapest Friday-to-Tuesday round trip from Tucson costs more than $1,200 with a stop in Phoenix, according to Google Flights.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
Microbes could make a sun-Venus round trip with the right amount of power, but the journey would demand different amounts of it in each direction, says Chad Orzel, a physicist at Union College.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
Launched in November, the Blue Jasmine journeys between Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong Station and Chiang Mai on nine-day round trips with limited departures, threading through rice paddies and mountain landscapes.
—Terry Ward, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
And with a 2 ½-hour round trip to bring detainees to the nearest ICE jail in Springfield, that time can add up.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
Someone now paying $10 in fees, round trip, would pay $24, or 140% more.
—Jason Henry, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
The Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha line currently makes six round trips daily.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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