sightseeing
sightseeing noun: the activity of going out looking at things; tourism. Also the present participle and gerund of sightsee.
Noun
sightseeing (usually uncountable, plural sightseeings)
- The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.
- Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.
Also used as
sightseeing is also the present participle and gerund of sightsee.
sightseeing meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
sightseeing in Hindi
- दर्शनीय स्थल देखना, दर्शनीय स्थल-दर्शन
sightseeing in Marathi
- प्रेक्षणीय स्थळे पाहणे, प्रेक्षणीय स्थळे बघणे
sightseeing in Bengali
- দর্শনীয় স্থান পরিদর্শন, দর্শনীয় স্থানগুলি দেখা
sightseeing in Malayalam
- കാണേണ്ട കാഴ്ചകൾ
More languagesFewer languages
- sightseeing in Nepali
- दर्शनीय स्थल, दर्शनीय दृश्यहरू
- sightseeing in Arabic
- زِيَارَة مَعَالِم اَلْمَدِينَة ziyārat maʕālim al-madīna, سِيَاحَة siyāḥa
- sightseeing in Thai
- ทัศนาจร tát-sà-naa-jɔɔn, ทัศนศึกษา tát-sʉ̀k-sǎa
Examples of sightseeing in a sentence
- Many game reserves are located in Africa. Most are open to the public, and tourists commonly take sightseeing safaris.
- We soon fell into sightseeing and a driving routine according to Spanish time.
- One section goes through 85 tunnels, which have windows cut in the sides to facilitate sightseeing.
Forms of sightseeing
| plural | sightseeings |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sight-seeing |
Origin of sightseeing
From sight + seeing.
Words formed from sightseeing
Questions about sightseeing
- What does sightseeing mean?
- Sightseeing means the activity of going out looking at things; tourism.
- What is sightseeing in Hindi?
- Sightseeing in Hindi is दर्शनीय स्थल देखना, दर्शनीय स्थल-दर्शन. See Sightseeing meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sightseeing?
- Sightseeing is a noun.
- What is the plural of sightseeing?
- The plural of sightseeing is sightseeings.
Words near sightseeing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sightseeing (page history and authors); sightseeing (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sightseeing (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sightseeing (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sightseeing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sightseeing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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