tour

noun

• 1a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited:three couples from Kansas on an airline tour of Alaska
• a short trip to or through a place in order to view or inspect something:a tour of the White House

• 2a journey made by performers or an athletic team, in which they perform or play in several different places:she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on tour
• (the tour) (in golf, tennis, and other sports) the annual round of events in which top professionals compete.

• 3 (also tour of duty) a period of duty on military or diplomatic service:he was haunted by his tour of duty in Vietnam

verb

• make a tour of (an area):he decided to tour France [no object]:they had toured in a little minivan
• take (a performer, production, etc.) on tour.