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touring

Syllables: tour·ing/ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/

touring adjective: working for a short time in different places. Also the present participle and gerund of tour.

Adjective

touring (not comparable)

  1. Working for a short time in different places.
    • a touring company
  2. Intended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.
    • If you are not using a touring-specific bike and you have large feet, you could have problems with your heels striking your rear panniers. This is one of the very reasons why a touring bike has long chainstays (435mm minimum).

Noun

touring (plural tourings)

  1. (informal) A touring car.
    • Finally, there was the 40-hp machine from the previous year, on the 120-inch wheelbase and listed in four body styles, tourings and roadsters.1988, Cars and Parts, volume 31, page 60

Also used as

touring is also the present participle and gerund of tour.

touring meaning in Malayalam

touring in Malayalam

ടൂറിംഗ്

Examples of touring in a sentence

  • They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
  • The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
  • The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.

All 26 example sentences with touring

Synonyms of touring

Forms of touring

pluraltourings

Words formed from touring

Phrases with touring

Words that rhyme with touring

Questions about touring

What does touring mean?
Touring means working for a short time in different places.
What is touring in Malayalam?
Touring in Malayalam is ടൂറിംഗ്. See Touring meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is touring?
Touring can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce touring?
Touring is pronounced /ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/.

Words near touring in the dictionary

  1. tourgoers
  2. tourgroup
  3. tourgroups
  4. tourguide
  5. tourguides
  6. touring
  7. touring bicycle
  8. touring bicycles
  9. touring car
  10. touring cars
  11. touring companies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touring (page history and authors); touring (Malayalam, 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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