Closed line integral

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It sounds like a stupid question. However, can closed line-integrals be defined for one-dimensional real valued functions? To add a little substance to the question. In two dimensions it makes total sense to write

\begin{align} \oint_C ...ds \end{align}

for closed paths. The use of this notation makes also sense for contour-integrals in the context of one-dimensional complex-valued functions, since complex numbers can be interpreted as two-dimensional fields.

What about the pure one-dimensional real-valued case? Are there examples?