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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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
Tickets start at 29 Canadian dollars per individual and additional 85 Canadian dollars for a standard vehicle round trip.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2025
Tennent pointed out one of the witnesses told investigators Abrego Garcia would drive round trip between Maryland and Houston -- nearly 24 hours each way -- two or three times per week.
—Arkansas Online, 14 June 2025
The trek to the top of Texas is a strenuous, 8.4-mile round trip with 3,000 feet of elevation gain.
—Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
Koivisto was known to cycle to Liverpool’s Melwood training ground from her home in the city centre, a 10-mile round trip.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 30 June 2025
They Power Real-Time AI Inference At The Edge Manufacturers using machine vision to inspect for defects on the production line cannot afford a cloud round trip.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Fargas attended all of Parker’s games at Naperville Central High, a nearly 1,100-mile round trip.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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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
Tickets start at 29 Canadian dollars per individual and additional 85 Canadian dollars for a standard vehicle round trip.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2025
Tennent pointed out one of the witnesses told investigators Abrego Garcia would drive round trip between Maryland and Houston -- nearly 24 hours each way -- two or three times per week.
—Arkansas Online, 14 June 2025
The trek to the top of Texas is a strenuous, 8.4-mile round trip with 3,000 feet of elevation gain.
—Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
Koivisto was known to cycle to Liverpool’s Melwood training ground from her home in the city centre, a 10-mile round trip.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 30 June 2025
They Power Real-Time AI Inference At The Edge Manufacturers using machine vision to inspect for defects on the production line cannot afford a cloud round trip.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Fargas attended all of Parker’s games at Naperville Central High, a nearly 1,100-mile round trip.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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