• Dutch:excursie, reis
• French: excursion , voyage
• German: Tour
• Hebrew: סיור (siur) , טיול (tiul)

• Dutch: rondgang, rondleiding
• German: Tour

Verb

1. To make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.
2. To make a circuit of a place

Translations

• Spanish: recorrer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tuʁ/
• SAMPA: /tuR/

Etymology 1

From turris (tower).

Noun

fr-noun f

1. tower

   La Tour de Pise est penchée. - The Tower of Pisa is leaning.

2. rook

Etymology 2

From torner, tourner.

Noun

fr-noun m

1. turn, circumference
2. go, turn

Etymology 3

From tornus.

Noun

fr-noun m

1. lathe, potter's wheel

Tour may mean:

• Tourism, travel for pleasure
• Concert tour, series of performances in different markets

• James Tour, nanoscientist
• Le Tour de France, the world's biggest bicycle race
• A tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service
• A guided or unguided tour of a significant building or location, often of historical importance.
• A tour used as punishment
• Professional golf tours
• the Grand Tour, a journey across Europe popular amongst young British upper-class men in the 18th century
• Another name for a Hamiltonian cycle
• Campus Tour is a way to expose the facility and activities of University and/or college campus.

See also

• Tourn, made by medieval sheriffs in England

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