For an abelian group G, g=(g1,…,gd)∈Gd and ε=(ε(1),…,ε(d))∈{0,1}d, let g⋅ε=∏i=1dgiε(i). In this paper, it is shown that for a minimal system (X,G) with G being abelian, (x,y)∈RP[d] if and only if there exists a sequence {gn}n∈N⊆Gd and points zε∈X,ε∈{0,1}d with z0=y such that for every ε∈{0,1}d\{0}, n→∞lim(gn⋅ε)x=zεandn→∞lim(gn⋅ε)−1z1=z1−ε, where RP[d] is the regionally proximal relation of order d.