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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Family legacy can demand out of the ordinary tasks, like a 250-mile round trip in a tight timeframe to retrieve family heirlooms.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
At 11, Stanway aged out of mixed football and the scant network of decent girls’ teams locally left the four-hour round trip to Blackburn Rovers as the best option.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 July 2025
Tennent pointed out that one of the witnesses told investigators that Abrego Garcia would drive round trip between Maryland and Houston — nearly 24 hours each way — two or three times per week.
—Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Tour Gorman Falls on your own or with a park guide, taking a 3-mile round trip hike over rough and rocky terrain.
—Dalia Faheid, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2025
Many thanks to Harley’s adopter, who made a 400-mile round trip from Tampa to bring her home!
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
Reach Taft Point on a mellow 2.2-mile hike (round trip) that starts on Glacier Point Road.
—Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 4 June 2025
Recent offerings included a $2,193 round-trip fare from Seattle to Istanbul in late July and New York to Athens in September for $2,668 round trip.
—AFAR Media, 10 July 2025
The flight saw the first all-female crew to outer space for a brief round trip.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 24 June 2025
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Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
At 11, Stanway aged out of mixed football and the scant network of decent girls’ teams locally left the four-hour round trip to Blackburn Rovers as the best option.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 July 2025
Tennent pointed out that one of the witnesses told investigators that Abrego Garcia would drive round trip between Maryland and Houston — nearly 24 hours each way — two or three times per week.
—Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Tour Gorman Falls on your own or with a park guide, taking a 3-mile round trip hike over rough and rocky terrain.
—Dalia Faheid, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2025
Many thanks to Harley’s adopter, who made a 400-mile round trip from Tampa to bring her home!
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
Reach Taft Point on a mellow 2.2-mile hike (round trip) that starts on Glacier Point Road.
—Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 4 June 2025
Recent offerings included a $2,193 round-trip fare from Seattle to Istanbul in late July and New York to Athens in September for $2,668 round trip.
—AFAR Media, 10 July 2025
The flight saw the first all-female crew to outer space for a brief round trip.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 24 June 2025
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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