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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By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Last week a quartet of British climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest—and spent less than a week on the total round trip from London.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
JetBlue currently operates about 180 round trips a day at JFK.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
And gray whales can travel 14,000 miles round trip between Russian feeding grounds and breeding grounds in Baja California.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 21 May 2025
That means the round trip flight from Doha to Florida of about 30 hours in the air — not including the time on the ground — could have cost perhaps as much as $1 million for a charter.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2025
The Splendor departed Sydney on Monday for an eight-day round trip cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, Carnival Cruise stated.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 23 May 2025
The average round trip ticket costs about $850 with the most popular flight destinations including Chicago, New York, Orlando, Denver and Seattle.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
Nowadays, my knees complain and the round trip takes two hours.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Kris Santos hasn’t missed a Maryland football home game in years despite the nine-hour round trip from home in Yorktown, Virginia, to College Park.
—Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2025
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Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
JetBlue currently operates about 180 round trips a day at JFK.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
And gray whales can travel 14,000 miles round trip between Russian feeding grounds and breeding grounds in Baja California.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 21 May 2025
That means the round trip flight from Doha to Florida of about 30 hours in the air — not including the time on the ground — could have cost perhaps as much as $1 million for a charter.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2025
The Splendor departed Sydney on Monday for an eight-day round trip cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, Carnival Cruise stated.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 23 May 2025
The average round trip ticket costs about $850 with the most popular flight destinations including Chicago, New York, Orlando, Denver and Seattle.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
Nowadays, my knees complain and the round trip takes two hours.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Kris Santos hasn’t missed a Maryland football home game in years despite the nine-hour round trip from home in Yorktown, Virginia, to College Park.
—Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2025
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“Round trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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