round-trip

Both ways, complete

A round-trip is a journey to a destination and back again: The round-trip takes about four hours.

As an adjective, it describes tickets or fares covering both directions: a round-trip ticket to Boston.

In computing, round-trip refers to the time for a signal to travel to a server and return, or to data that passes through a system and comes back in usable form.

travel

itinerary

Planned sequence of destinations

excursion · departure · arrival · airfare · booking · reservation · fare · passenger · layover · stopover

journey

voyage

Journey by sea

excursion · adventure · sojourn · outing · itinerary · homeward · outward · departure · return · loop

return

homecoming

Returning to one's origin

reunion · reversion · back-and-forth · loop · turnaround · boomerang · completion · reciprocal · bidirectional

ticket

fare

Transport payment

passage · departure · arrival · airline · economy · business · first-class · nonstop · layover · transfer

Categories
Opposites
journey direction/return

round-tripone-way

Permitting single direction travel

one-way trip · single · one-way ticket · non-return · direct

permanence of departure

round-tripemigration

Leaving homeland permanently

one-way trip · final journey · no return · exodus · deportation

Family

roundtrip

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G