You are looking for the following: > **Definition.** A subgraph $H\subseteq G$ is called *isometric* if $\mathrm{dist}_H(u,v)=\mathrm{dist}_G(u,v)$ for all $u,v\in V(H)$. So your cycles could be called **isometric cycles**. --- Note that not all facets of a polyhedron are induced in this sense. Consider the a $2n$-gonal pyramid for some $n\ge 3$. Two antipodal vertices of the $n$-gonal face $C$ have distance $n$ along $C$, but only distance two in the pyramid (via the apex vertex).