Peter wrote:
xyzzy wrote

If "flight" means the strict thing (taking off and landing) then how
one can do three different approaches, other than do the first two as
missed approaches?

There is no "strict thing" definition of flight in the FARs. The FAA is
quite lenient in what constitutes a flight, it has to have a start point
and a destination, but it can have any number of stops of whatever
duration you want in the strict definition...if they want non-stop or
a certain leg length, they explicitly say so.