sightsee

English

Alternative forms

• sight-see

Etymology

Back-formation from sightseeing.

Verb

sightsee (third-person singular simple present sightsees, present participle sightseeing, simple past sightsaw, past participle sightseen)

1. (intransitive) To go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area.
   • 1985, Jilly Cooper, Riders:

     The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered.

   • 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 142:

     It was their first time on the Continent and they sight-saw for a week in Paris […].

Usage notes

• Many speakers prefer forms of "go sightseeing".

Translations

go sightseeing

Chinese: Mandarin: 觀光 / 观光 (zh) (guānguāng), 遊覽 / 游览 (zh) (yóulǎn) Finnish: katsella nähtävyyksiä Japanese: 見物する (ja) (けんぶつする, kenbutsu suru) Korean: 구경하다 (ko) (gugyeonghada) Malayalam: കാഴ്ച്ചകൾ കാണുക (kāḻccakaḷ kāṇuka) Polish: zwiedzać (pl) Russian: осма́тривать достопримеча́тельности impf (osmátrivatʹ dostoprimečátelʹnosti) Slovene: ogledovati si impf, ogledati si pf Spanish: visitar los lugares de interés, turismo (es)