return trip
return trip — noun
1. A journey from one place to another and then back to the starting point.
A journey from one place to another and then back to the starting point.
The return trip from Taipei to Kaohsiung takes about ninety minutes by high-speed rail.
return trip + from [place] to [place]
Hamza bought a return-trip ticket to London for his summer holiday.
hyphenated modifier: return-trip ticket
Constanza was exhausted after the six-hour return trip to her grandmother's house.
A return trip on this ferry costs forty dollars per adult passenger.
Rohan packed sandwiches and water for the long return trip through the mountains.
- round trip
Interchangeable in most contexts; 'round trip' is far more common in US English, while 'return trip' is also used in British English.
- journey there and back
More informal and descriptive; often used in travel narratives.
- return journey
Slightly more formal; commonly used in British English for a two-way trip.
- one-way trip
A journey to a destination without returning to the starting point.
- outward journey
Specifically the first half of a return trip — the leg from the starting point to the destination.
用法筆記
Can also refer specifically to the journey back (the return leg), as in 'The return trip was faster than the outward journey.' In US English, 'round trip' is more common for the full two-way journey.