touring

tour | American Dictionary

tour
noun[ C ]
us/tʊr/
a visit to a place or area, esp. one during which you look around the place or area and learn about it:
a walking tour
a sightseeing tour
A tour is also a planned visit to several places to give performances:
The band is currently on tour in Australia.
tour
verb[ I/T ]
us/tʊr/
to go on a tour somewhere:
[ T ]We spent a month touring France.
[ I ]Alanis is touring to promote her new album.

tour | Business English

tour
noun[ C ]
uk /tʊər/us
a visit to a place or area, especially in order to look around it and learn about it:
a tour of/around/round sthAs soon as we arrived, we were given a tour of the plant.
We offer guided tours of the city.
TRANSPORT, COMMERCE
a journey made for pleasure, especially as a holiday, visiting several different places in an area:
a cycling/walking/driving tourThe company specializes in cycling tours of Provence.
a visit to several places for a special purpose:
The management team made a tour of all the company's retail outlets in the country.
tour
verb
uk /tʊər/us
to go on a tour somewhere:
tour around/round/in sthWe spent a month touring around Kenya.

Examples of tour

tour
A major turning point in the company's history was the six-month world tour which was undertaken in 1964.
The three of us made a tour of futures exchanges and other risk management companies to try to get markets for real estate risk started.
However, the aim of the system is to model the dialectical exchange between a tourist, tour operators and tourist advisors.
Tour operators changed their programmes and turned to other sites that had more to offer to the tourist.
The jobbers toured the neighbourhoods and tried to gather the needed extra hands.
He habitually addressed her as 'my dear' and she writes how she waited eagerly for his return when he went on tours.
And, before the railroad, travel was difficult enough to preclude any sort of concert circuit of touring virtuosos, even had the demand been there.
In this situation corporate sponsorship has helped promoters put on larger, more frequent tours, many of which would previously have been far too expensive.
The present tour was made up of 24 performances and 27 sessions for education and training activities involving 308 participants.
In other words, the marketplace audience has met the touring company halfway.
Provided with an itinerary of the route, a local listener can easily follow the tour, and others can imagine similar scenes.
No catch for two weeks, all staff being on tour elsewhere on the line.
I briefly toured with them as master carpenter and property master.
As the final chords rang round the auditorium, the entire school rose in rapturous applause; the tour had started well.
When not touring he worked in bars and nightclubs, playing jazz and popular music.
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Collocations withtour

tour

These are words often used in combination with tour.

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audio tour
Upon entering the exhibit, however, we were each handed a set of headphones for the state-of-the-art audiotour.
bicycle tour
An additional source of income is its kibbutz cottage tourist accommodation, and it specializes in organized bicycle tours.
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