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

For one person going on a three-day trip, the shuttle lot costs $24, and RTD round trip costs $20. —Tj Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2024

The vessel has since embarked on another round trip to Alaska, this time for 14 days. —Francesca Street, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024

Admission: Free Difficulty: Easy Length: 1.5 miles round trip Details: 928-368-6700, trackswhitemountains.org Pinetop-Lakeside: Timber Mesa Trail From the parking lot, the trail scrambles to the top of the butte in a moderate grade. —Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024

After a four-hour round trip through difficult California traffic, Argon was at GSROC and in front of Dales. —Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024

Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. —Dan Kotlyar, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024

The 11 domestic routes Hopper tracked with fares below $100 round trip is the lowest number of destinations with cheap base fares from Phoenix since February, when Hopper tracked 10 routes under $100. —Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024

This side trek makes the journey about 7.5 miles round trip. —Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

Now with the diversion to Virginia, the round trip is almost a thousand miles which increases the costs to $2,000 to cover the fuel and time on the road. —Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above