Give an example of a body which covers a known distance, but its displacement is zero?

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If we take an example of daily life, in that a person is moving from his home to office and then office to home.
Then it covers two times the distance but displacement is zero because its origin and destination will be the same, hence displacement is zero but distance is double.

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