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 ride is a three-hour round trip with a 15-minute layover at the historic 1912 Bertram Depot.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Nov. 2024
The train will offer 69 round trips, which is 29 more than last season.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
Those pandas returned to China on the same FedEx jet that then turned around and transported Bao Li and Qing Bao – a round trip of over 10,000 miles.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
My round trip from the closest parking to the trailhead in Yosemite Valley covered more than 18 miles and climbed more than 5,000 vertical feet, according to the fitness app Alltrails.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
The new 13-hour service will operate three times a week – on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays – aboard Fiji Airways Airbus A350-900 aircraft, from $999 round trip.
—David Hochman, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
International flight records reveal that in 2010, Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, took an undisclosed round trip from Hawaii to New Zealand aboard Crow's private jet, Wyden wrote.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
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
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Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Nov. 2024
The train will offer 69 round trips, which is 29 more than last season.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
Those pandas returned to China on the same FedEx jet that then turned around and transported Bao Li and Qing Bao – a round trip of over 10,000 miles.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
My round trip from the closest parking to the trailhead in Yosemite Valley covered more than 18 miles and climbed more than 5,000 vertical feet, according to the fitness app Alltrails.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
The new 13-hour service will operate three times a week – on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays – aboard Fiji Airways Airbus A350-900 aircraft, from $999 round trip.
—David Hochman, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
International flight records reveal that in 2010, Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, took an undisclosed round trip from Hawaii to New Zealand aboard Crow's private jet, Wyden wrote.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
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
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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