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

See Examples For:

round trip

If he has to send 80 truckloads of soybeans 80 miles round trip, he estimates savings of $30 to $40 per truckload — or up to $3,200.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

My work is close, about 20 miles round trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Year 10 pupil Ethan, from Budehaven Community School, wants to become a marine biologist and recently completed a work experience placement at a seal sanctuary that was a three-hour round trip by car.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

But a round trip to the moon would take over a week, and no one was willing to guarantee that a man’s body wouldn’t somehow be damaged by being weightless that long.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins