sightseeing

See also: sight-seeing

English

Alternative forms

• sight-seeing

Etymology

From sight +‎ seeing.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sightseeing (usually uncountable, plural sightseeings)

1. The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

   Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: sightseeing
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: sightseeing

Translations

tourism

Arabic: زِيَارَة مَعَالِم اَلْمَدِينَة f (ziyārat maʕālim al-madīna), سِيَاحَة f (siyāḥa) Bulgarian: разглеждане на забележителности (razgleždane na zabeležitelnosti) Chinese: Mandarin: 觀光 / 观光 (zh) (guānguāng), 遊覽 / 游览 (zh) (yóulǎn) Dutch: sightseeing (nl) m or f, bezichtigen van bezienswaardigheden n, toerisme (nl) n, op excursie gaan n Finnish: nähtävyyksien katselu, kiertoajelu (fi) French: tourisme (fr) m Galician: turismo (gl) m German: Sightseeing n, Tourismus (de) m, Besichtigen n von Sehenswürdigkeiten, Besichtigung (de) f von Sehenswürdigkeiten Hungarian: városnézés (hu), műemléklátogatás Irish: turasóireacht f Italian: giro turistico m Japanese: 観光 (ja) (かんこう, kankō), 見物 (ja) (けんぶつ, kenbutsu), サイトシーイング (saitoshīingu) Korean: 관광 (ko) (gwan'gwang), 구경 (ko) (gugyeong), 유람 (ko) (yuram) Macedonian: разгледу́вање на знамени́тости n (razgledúvanje na znamenítosti) Malay: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: sightseeing m Nynorsk: sightseeing f Russian: осмо́тр достопримеча́тельностей m (osmótr dostoprimečátelʹnostej) Spanish: turismo (es) m, excursionismo m Thai: ทัศนาจร (tát-sà-naa-jɔɔn), ทัศนศึกษา Turkish: gezip görme

Verb

sightseeing

1. present participle and gerund of sightsee

Related terms

• sightseer

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sightseeing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑjt.siː.jɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sight‧see‧ing

Noun

sightseeing m or f or n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. sightseeing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sightseeing.

Noun

sightseeing m (definite singular sightseeingen, indefinite plural sightseeinger, definite plural sightseeingene)

1. sightseeing

References

• “sightseeing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sightseeing.

Noun

sightseeing f (definite singular sightseeinga, indefinite plural sightseeingar, definite plural sightseeingane)

1. sightseeing

References

• “sightseeing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.