Thesaurus results for TOURS

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noun

Definition of tours

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

Ortega’s look becomes the latest to join the batch of celebrities who nabbed pieces from the spring 2027 runway and brought them onto their promotional tours and red carpets over the last few weeks. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 The Wine Lounge offers a taste of both the wines and olive oils that are made on-site, with winery tours available for those who want to go a bit deeper into the inner workings of the wine-making process. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026 My dad was a legit scratch (played HS, college and some mini senior tours in his 50s). — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The museum will be near the embarkation points for future diving tours to the ship, according to the SS United States Conservancy, which is helping with the museum. — Laura Fay, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Rick Steves writes European guidebooks, hosts travel shows on public TV and radio, and organizes European tours. — Rick Steves, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2026 Boldface names were offered tours of the oasis of AlUla and its vast sandstone canyons. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Verb

Al Jardine, a fellow Beach Boys co-founder who tours in a separate group and has sharply criticized Love’s behavior in the past, is saddened about how his former friend arrived at this point. — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Yang tours globally as a headliner and has recently sold out arenas in America, Europe, Asia and Australia, breaking the record for the largest English-language stand-up comedy show ever held in Hong Kong and Tokyo. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 Boat tours around Thonburi can most easily be arranged by Condé Nast Traveler specialist Smiling Albino. — Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 As Iñárritu tours the house like an excited docent, characters enter and exit like old-fashioned movie clowns. — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026 This summer, an LGBTQ+ cruise ship that tours the Mediterranean and has docked in Turkey multiple times in the past was refused permission to dock there. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 Best known as a member of boy band One Direction, Horan now tours with his solo music. — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026 Although wine tastings are available daily by appointment, tours only available on weekends from December through July, outside of harvest season. — Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Fine-dining Anthology also returns with a tasting menu that tours through Italy. — Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tours

Noun

Under the terms, each body will act as a contact point for joint productions between the two sectors and pass along information on public funding open to producers in each country.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Whether faith can be justified on any terms but its own is an epistemological question beyond this columnist’s understanding.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of terms

Verb

Despite the expansion of Starlink and other communications satellite services, most of the world’s Internet traffic still travels through subsea cables crisscrossing the ocean floors.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
In two Top-10 matchups in the final week of the regular season, Loyola hosts Mount Carmel — and Hersey travels to Prospect.

— Mike McGraw, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of travels

Noun

The Business Guy After stints at entertainment law firms Loeb & Loeb and Hansen Jacobson Teller and the BA & legal department of Castle Rock Entertainment early on, Cheeks landed a business and legal affairs job at MTV Networks.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026
Stubblefield has spent two stints as an assistant to Altman at Oregon.

— Anne M. Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stints

Verb

Carlos Manuel Vesga submitted the Pluribus episode where Manousos treks up through South America while accepting no help from the hive members, a showcase of defiant pride and a good bit of physically demanding work.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2026
The jukebox musical is built from Keys’ catalogue of R&B and soul hits, a semi-autobiographical story that treks through her Manhattan upbringing.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 May 2026

Definition of treks

Noun

Two former press secretaries from his first term — Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany — were hired after their tenures in the White House, although Sanders departed to launch her campaign for governor of Arkansas.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
Sixty years ago, hall of famer Wilt Chamberlain famously lived in a Manhattan apartment on Central Park West and commuted to Philadelphia for games and practices during his tenures with the Philadelphia Warriors and 76ers.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of tenures

Verb

And as the cops try to arrest them, only to realize their own jails aren’t accessible, the film expresses perfectly how the government trips over its own feet while resisting inevitable change.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
Wheeler trips more often now and no longer rides his scooter around the cul de sac because of his deteriorating vision and poor coordination.

— Gerry Smith, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026