round trip

noun

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 ( def 4 ).

round trip

noun

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

Other Words From

• round-trip adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of round trip¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Idioms and Phrases

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]

Example Sentences

Finding the shortest round trip on a given shape might seem as simple as picking a direction and walking in a straight line.

From Quanta Magazine

Unfortunately, our existing processors are a bad match for the sort of algorithms that many of these techniques are based on, in part because they require frequent round trips between the processor and memory.

From Ars Technica

Computer scientists also triumphed this year in dealing with the famous traveling salesperson problem, which concerns how to find the shortest round trip for any collection of cities.

From Quanta Magazine

At some point in the next several years she will conclude her round trip back to Diego Garcia and begin the entire process again.

From Nautilus

Christofides’ algorithm uses this tree as the backbone for a round-trip tour, adding extra edges to convert it into a round trip.

From Quanta Magazine

A 64-year-old animal trainer, he makes the six-hour round-trip every two weeks to submit to her and explore his sexuality.

From The Daily Beast

She was making the round trip for the second time since the fighting began.

From The Daily Beast

He blamed the Ukrainians for letting it get run down, and he cut the round-trip air fare from Moscow almost in half.

From The Daily Beast

He searches patiently through his briefcase and produces a round-trip ticket for the seat in question.

From The Daily Beast

It took me 1.5 hours (3 hours round trip) to get to school every day.

From The Daily Beast

The round trip covers a distance of about seventy-five miles and occupies eight or ten hours.

From Project Gutenberg

The Pennsylvania made a round trip in about thirty-five days, with a day or two of idle time at either end.

From Project Gutenberg

The next day we left our pony, and made a flying round trip of thirty miles to the settlement.

From Project Gutenberg

In less than two weeks, Motor Matt, we could make a round trip to the Bahamas in your air ship.

From Project Gutenberg

They saddled up and left at once, in order to complete the round trip before dark.

From Project Gutenberg