round trip

American  

noun

• round trips
  plural

1. a trip to a given place and back again.

   Fares for round trips often have a discount.

2. a transportation ticket for such a trip.

3. Pinochle. roundhouse.

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round trip British  

noun

1. a trip to a place and back again, esp returning by a different route

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round trip Idioms  

1. A journey to a given place and back again, usually over the same route; also, a ticket for such a trip. For example, The fare for a round trip is generally lower than for two one-way journeys. [Mid-1800s]

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• round-trip
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• round trips
  plural

Etymology

Origin of round trip

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

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round trip

For Jonathan Haeffele, seeing Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was not as simple as buying a movie ticket: It also required a six-hour round trip.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Each day, I made the three-mile round trip to inspect the warblers, chipmunks and generally mysterious rustlings of the underbrush.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

For Nashville, Tenn., resident Keyana Miller, a recent Greyhound bus ride to visit friends in Atlanta cost only $75 round trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

A 14-year-old girl who has been blind since birth had to make a 140-mile round trip to attend a cinema screening after struggling to find an accessible option closer to home.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

“This ticket says round trip, Marshall, Texas, to St. Louis, Missouri. Don’t you try to put one over on me.”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson