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English
Etymology
From sight + seeing.
Pronunciation
Noun
sightseeing (usually uncountable, plural sightseeings)
- The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.
Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.
Descendants
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
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Verb
sightseeing
- present participle and gerund of sightsee
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English sightseeing.
Noun
sightseeing m (definite singular sightseeingen, indefinite plural sightseeinger, definite plural sightseeingene)
- sightseeing
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English sightseeing.
Noun
sightseeing f (definite singular sightseeinga, indefinite plural sightseeingar, definite plural sightseeingane)
- sightseeing
References