sightseeing

See also: sight-seeing

English

Alternative forms

• sight-seeing

Etymology

sight +‎ seeing

Pronunciation

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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

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.