Tour de France

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Tour de France (literally “Tour of France”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtʊə də ˈfɹɑːns/, /ˌtʊə də ˈfɹɒns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtʊɹ də ˈfɹæns/, /ˌtʊɹ də ˈfɹɑns/

Proper noun

Tour de France (plural Tours de France or Tour de Frances)

1. (cycle racing) An annual long-distance cycling race through France and other European countries.

   Synonym: Tour (by ellipsis)

   • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     Sharing my predicament over a breakfast last week, he told me he commutes to his office every day by bike. Yet he was dressed in a smart black suit. His secret, he said, is black denim jeans with a 2 per cent elastane stretch — a great alternative for cyclists who don’t want to go full Tour de France.

Coordinate terms

• Giro d'Italia
• green jersey
• Vuelta a España
• yellow jersey

Translations

annual long-distance cycling race through France

• Arabic: طَوَاف فَرَنْسَا m (ṭawāf faransā)
• Aragonese: Tour de Francia m
• Asturian: Tour de Francia m
• Basque: Frantziako Tourra
• Belarusian: Тур дэ Франс m (Tur de Frans)
• Breton: Tro Bro-C'hall war varc'h-houarn m
• Bulgarian: Обиколка на Франция f (Obikolka na Francija)
• Catalan: Tour de França m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 環法單車賽 / 环法单车赛 (waan⁴ faat³ daan¹ ce¹ coi³)

  Mandarin: 環法自行車賽 / 环法自行车赛 (huán-Fǎ zìxíngchēsài)

• Danish: Tour de France c
• Dutch: Ronde van Frankrijk f, Tour de France m
• Finnish: Ranskan ympäriajo
• French: Tour de France (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Omgong fan Frankryk

• Galician: Tour de Francia m
• Georgian: ტურ დე ფრანსი (ṭur de pransi)
• German: Tour de France (de) f

  Central Franconian: Tuur d Frongß

• Greek: Γύρος της Γαλλίας m (Gýros tis Gallías), Γύρος Γαλλίας m (Gýros Gallías)
• Hebrew: טוּר דה פראנס m
• Hindi: टूर डी फ्रांस m (ṭūr ḍī phrāns)
• Ido: Turo di Francia
• Italian: Tour de France (it) m, Giro di Francia m
• Japanese: ツール・ド・フランス (Tsūru do Furansu)
• Kannada: ಟೂರ್ ಡೆ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸ್ (ṭūr ḍe phrāns)
• Kazakh: Тур де Франс (Tur de Frans), Франция Туры (Fransiä Tury)
• Korean: 투르 드 프랑스 (tureu deu peurangseu)
• Latin: Circuitus Franciae m
• Limburgish: Frankrieksróndj, Runde van Frankriek
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Roonde van Fraankriek f

• Macedonian: Тур де Франс n (Tur de Frans), Трка околу Франција f (Trka okolu Francija)
• Marathi: तूर द फ्रांस m (tūr da phrāusa)
• Norwegian: Frankrike rundt m, Tour de France m
• Persian: تور دو فرانس (tor do farâns), تور فرانسه (tor farânse)
• Piedmontese: Gir dla Fransa m
• Portuguese: Tour de France m, Volta da França f, Volta à França f
• Punjabi: ਟੂਰ ਡ ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸ m (ṭūr ḍa farāns), ਟੂਅਖ਼ ਡ ਫ਼ਖ਼ੌਂਸ m (ṭūaxa ḍa faxauns)

  Western Punjabi: ٹور ڈی فرانس (ṭūr ḍī Frāns)

• Romanian: Turul Franței n
• Russian: Тур де Франс m (Tur dɛ Frans)
• Spanish: Tour de Francia m
• Tamil: தூர் த பிரான்சு (tūr ta pirāṉcu)
• Tatar: Tur de Frans
• Telugu: టూర్ డి ఫ్రాన్స్ (ṭūr ḍi phrāns)
• Thai: ตูร์เดอฟร็องส์ (dtuu də̀əf-rɔng)
• Turkish: Fransa Bisiklet Turu
• Ukrainian: Тур де Франс m (Tur de Frans)
• Veps: Tur de Frans
• Vietnamese: Vòng quanh nước Pháp, Vòng nước Pháp
• Walloon: Toû d' France m
• West Flemish: Rounde van Vrankryk f
• Yiddish: טור פֿון פֿראַנקרײַך m (tur fun frankraykh), טור דע פֿראַנס m (tur de frans)

See also

• Grand Tour

Anagrams

• unrefactored

French

Etymology

Literally, “Tour of France”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Proper noun

le Tour de France m

1. (cycling) Tour de France (annual cycling race through France)

   Synonyms: Grande Boucle (literally “Big Loop”), (by ellipsis) Tour

Coordinate terms

• maillot jaune
• maillot vert

Related terms

• Tour d'Espagne
• Tour d'Italie

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French Tour de France. The gender follows that of the common noun Tour, which see.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtuːr də ˈfrãs/, [ˌtu(ː)ɐ̯ də ˈfʁãːs], [... ˈfʁɔ̃ːs], [ˈfʁaŋs], [ˈfʁɔŋs]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

die Tour de France f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Tour de France, definite plural (chiefly in speech) die Tour de Francen)

1. (cycling) Tour de France

   Synonym: Frankreich-Rundfahrt

Usage notes

• The plural Tour de Francen is unproblematic as a spoken form, but it is orthographically awkward and therefore very rare in edited texts.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Tour de France (literally “Tour of France”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur de ˈfrans/

Proper noun

il Tour de France m

1. (cycling) Tour de France (annual cycling race through France)

   Synonyms: Giro di Francia, (by ellipsis) Tour

Coordinate terms

• maglia gialla
• maglia verde

Related terms

• Giro di Spagna, Vuelta a España
• Giro d'Italia