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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The Hunter Trail hike is a challenging 3.2-mile round trip with steep switchbacks, rock scrambles and an elevation gain of 1,600 feet.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
Sometimes my dad would pile us in his van and do a 10-hour round trip in a single day.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2024
Lyft or Uber rides can be $60 round trip for Davis, 21, to get to his job loading and unloading luggage at the airport at night.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
With Laysan albatrosses flying up to 50,000 miles per year as an adult, Wisdom would have flown multiple round trips to the moon by her age, according to USFWS.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Bags of Cash Towards the end of 2022, investigators followed a van from Kensington, in London, on a 300-mile round trip to Oldham in the north of England.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
McCay drove 10-hours round trip to Mississippi State University, who alongside staff from Greenbrier Animal Hospital, agreed to treat Acklin.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
Up to 30 percent off promotion code savings valid for one-way or round trip Wanna Get Away® and Wanna Get Away Plus® fares booked on Southwest.com® or swabiz.com from December 2-5, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
But poor road conditions in Wisconsin prompted the organizers to settle for a more modest 54-mile round trip from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2024
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
Sometimes my dad would pile us in his van and do a 10-hour round trip in a single day.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2024
Lyft or Uber rides can be $60 round trip for Davis, 21, to get to his job loading and unloading luggage at the airport at night.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
With Laysan albatrosses flying up to 50,000 miles per year as an adult, Wisdom would have flown multiple round trips to the moon by her age, according to USFWS.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Bags of Cash Towards the end of 2022, investigators followed a van from Kensington, in London, on a 300-mile round trip to Oldham in the north of England.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
McCay drove 10-hours round trip to Mississippi State University, who alongside staff from Greenbrier Animal Hospital, agreed to treat Acklin.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
Up to 30 percent off promotion code savings valid for one-way or round trip Wanna Get Away® and Wanna Get Away Plus® fares booked on Southwest.com® or swabiz.com from December 2-5, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
But poor road conditions in Wisconsin prompted the organizers to settle for a more modest 54-mile round trip from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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