tour
noun
[ tʊə ]
• a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited.
• "a motoring tour of Scotland"
Similar:
excursion,
journey,
expedition,
trip,
jaunt,
outing,
day trip,
junket,
voyage,
trek,
safari,
peregrination,
• a journey made by performers or a sports team, in which they perform or play in several different places.
• "Ireland's eight-match tour of New Zealand"
• a spell of duty on military or diplomatic service.
• "a tour of duty in Northern Ireland"
tour
verb
• make a tour of (an area).
• "he decided to tour France"
Similar:
travel round,
travel through,
journey through,
go on a trip through,
go on an excursion in,
explore,
voyage around,
trek around,
sightsee in,
cruise,
range over,
roam in,
rove through,
wander through,
globetrot,
holiday in,
do,
visit,
go round,
go around,
walk round,
drive round,
see,
inspect,
review,
survey,
scrutinize,
reconnoitre,
Origin:
Middle English (in tour (sense 3 of the noun); also denoting a circular movement): from Old French, ‘turn’, via Latin from Greek tornos ‘lathe’. Sense 1 dates from the mid 17th century.
