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

She said she faced a "nightmare" five-hour round trip to just get back to her home in Blackpool.

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

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

“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