• IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/

tour (plural tours)

1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

   On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.

2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.

   On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.

3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.

   Metallica's tour of Europe

4. (sports, chiefly, cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. (military) A tour of duty.
6. (graph theory) A closed trail.
7. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,

8. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.

   the tours of the heavenly bodies

• study tour
• tour guide

• French: excursion, voyage, tournée
• German: Tour, Reise
• Portuguese: passeio
• Russian: путеше́ствие
• Spanish: recorrido, tour

• French: visite guidée
• German: Tour, Rundgang
• Portuguese: excursão, tour
• Russian: тур
• Spanish: tour

• French: tournée
• German: Tour, Tournee
• Italian: tournée, (abbrivation) tournée
• Portuguese: turnê
• Spanish: gira, tour

tour (tours, present participle touring; past and past participle toured)

1. (intransitive) To make a journey

   The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.

2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

   The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.

• French: tourner
• Spanish: recorrer

• Spanish: recorrer

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

tour (tours, present participle touring; past and past participle toured)

1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

1. (cycling, by ellipsis) The Tour de France.