one-way trip
Journey without return
A one-way trip is travel to a destination without return—you buy a one-way ticket when you're not coming back, or don't know when.
The phrase often serves as a euphemism for death or suicide: a one-way trip to the grave, The mission was essentially a one-way trip.
In space exploration, one-way trips to Mars have been seriously proposed.
- journeyTravel from place to place
- destinationIntended arrival point
- departureAct of going away
- no turning backCommitment beyond reversal
- suicide missionAssignment with fatal certainty
no return · emigration · exile · pilgrimage · rocket · Mars · deep space · colonization · irreversible · ticket · farewell · goodbye · leaving · spaceship · kamikaze · death · bought the farm · terminal
- flightsdeparture, arrival, nonstop flight, boarding, connecting flight
- travel typescommute, vacations, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, business travel
- carsharingZipcar, Maven, fleet, booking, rental
- ferriesferry boats, ferry, ferry service, jetfoil, ferry routes
- schedulestimetable, calendar, itinerary, bus schedule, train schedule
one-way tripround trip
Travel both directions
roundtrip · return trip · return journey · round-trip ticket · there and back
one-way tripround trip
Travel both directions
short stay · vacation · visit · sabbatical · sojourn