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

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

Henderson spent years making a two-and-a-half hour round trip with his father from Whitehaven to Carlisle United's academy, while Trafford was raised on his family's farm near Cockermouth.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Raisor, meanwhile, once drove to Indianapolis for a date — a round trip that cost him $100 in gas.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The MV Hondius sailed on March 20 from Ushuaia, the capital of Tierra del Fuego on the southern edge of Argentina, on a round trip to the Antarctica Peninsula, returning to port 11 days later.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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