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round trip

round trip

46 1.6
A journey to a place and back to where you started
  • noun
  • /raʊnd trɪp/
  • US
translation icon : viaje de ida y vuelta
  • The cost of a round-trip flight to a developing country can be prohibitive.
  • a round trip ticket
  • make a round trip
  • take a round trip

Can I send you on a cruise or maybe a round trip to Shanghai?

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Examples

  • So I gotta drive, what, 16 hours round trip, all night, sit there all day?

    Dead of Winter (2014)

  • Within four months, she has saved enough money for a round-trip ticket.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Will this be a round trip, or one way?

    Hidden in the Woods (2014)

  • A round trip to New York.

    Dear God (1996)

  • A round trip ticket to see Mom in Florida.

    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

  • Can I send you on a cruise or maybe a round trip to Shanghai?

    H3 Podcast

  • I bought a round-trip ticket and prepared to spend six weeks in Argentina.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Flights out of San Diego were only $274 round trip per person during the holidays.

    Blog text (6)

  • Toni complained: "That's more than forty miles round trip just to watch a movie."

    Academic text (2007)

  • I drive over 150 miles a day for my round trip to work.

Synonyms

trip
vsround trip
∞ 1.0

A journey to a place and back for work or fun

emphasizes the definite two way nature rather than the purpose
quick trip
vsround trip
11 1.4

A short journey to a place and back

describes the same two way journey without implying short duration
there and back
vsround trip
10 2.2

To go to a place and back again

is the same idea expressed as a common travel term

Antonyms

one-way ticket
27 1.0

A ticket that lets you travel to a place but not back

How Long

expedition
358 4.1
journey
∞ 1.1
round trip
  • US
46 1.6
day out
  • UK
21 1.8
stroll
92 1.2

Surface Forms

round trip singular
round trips plural

Morphology

round + trip

The noun 'round trip' is a straightforward composition of 'round' (indicating a circuit or return) and 'trip' (a journey), so a B1 learner who knows those words can readily infer a journey that goes and then comes back. The technical networking sense (round-trip time) is a transparent metaphorical extension of that basic meaning — the time for a request to go to a remote host and return — and is cross-linguistically paralleled, making the expression predictable.

Etymology

Round trip comes from the simple idea of a trip that goes round back to the start: you go somewhere and then return, so it means 'a journey to a place and back'.