Thesaurus results for TOURS

tours 1 of 2

noun

plural of tour

as in terms

a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position asked the soldiers to consider signing up for a second tour of duty

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tours

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verb

present tense third-person singular of tour

as in travels

to take a trip especially of some distance thought it would be lots of fun to tour all over Europe this summer

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Recent Examples of tours

Noun

These culinary walking tours, which mostly run around 2½ hours, are an amazing way to immerse yourself into the storied, ever-changing and diverse food scene in Las Vegas. —

Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026 Dallas officials arranged tours of up to four potential City Hall sites for a handful of City Council members earlier this year, even though the locations were not disclosed to the broader council and public. —

Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 9 Mar. 2026 Around 2014, Liu began bringing American classicists on lecture tours through Chinese universities. —

Chang Che, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026 There were either standing companies or lengthy tours in Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Denmark, Italy and Australia, many of them happening in the last three or four years. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2026 To cite a few more, Chris Isaak, Andrew Bird and Iron & Wine’s 2014 tours included stops at Humphreys and at the 17,376-seat Hollywood Bowl. —

George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026 Tennis players on both tours have become accustomed to receiving abuse and harassment on social media, most prevalently from bettors who have lost money on their matches. —

James Hansen, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026 In British Columbia alone there are more than 20 companies to choose from, including Canadian Mountain Holidays, founded by Gmoser in 1959 (with ski tours starting in 1965). —

Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026 There’s parasailing, tarpon fishing, dolphin tours, and more. —

Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026

Verb

The band still tours regularly and — unlike many ‘80s acts — boasts most of its original members (minus drummer and former lover Jon Moss). —

Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026 Riders will travel on a new century route that tours South Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Las Olas and Lighthouse Point, with an approximately 40-mile stretch along the Florida coastline under police escort. —

Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026 Zach Bryan is bringing one of this year’s biggest country music tours his With Heaven On Tour, which also features MJ Lenderman, to State Farm Stadium in September. —

Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 Feb. 2026 The 100-acre limestone cavern has more than 17 miles of underground passageways and is home to Mega Zip Lines tour, Mega Quest ropes course, Mega Walking tours and Mega Tram tours. —

Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Feb. 2026 Jimmy Eat World will put fans in the middle of a big celebration this summer as the group tours to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its breakthrough and top-selling album, Bleed American. —

Gary Graff, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2026 The event was hosted by Reawaken USA, a relatively new conservative group that tours college campuses, inviting students to have an open dialogue. —

Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026 The hotel does have a nice menu of excursions that includes kayaking in the bay, tours to nearby Cinque Terre, and a visit to local eco-farm La Portofinese where lunches and wine tastings are available. —

Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026 Discover Sarasota Tours offers 90-minute trolley tours multiple times a day that acquaint visitors with the city’s layout, history, neighborhoods, and many popular attractions. —

Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026

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Amodei is in talks with Emil Michael, under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, in a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement on the terms governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's Claude models, the Times reported, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter.

— Dylan Butts, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
Fortunately, however, the absolute energy of any individual particle-particle collision is tiny, corresponding to tiny fractions of a microgram’s worth of energy in terms of mass.

— Big Think, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026