1.  tour(n = noun.act) circuit - a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island"
is a kind of journey, journeying
has particulars: walkabout, grand tour, grand tour, itineration, package holiday, package tour, pub crawl, whistle-stop tour
Derived forms verb tour₁, noun tourist₁

2.  tour(n = noun.time) go, spell, turn - a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work"
is a kind of duty period, shift, work shift

3.  tour(n = noun.time) duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty - a period of time spent in military service; Array
is a kind of period, period of time, time period

   tour(v = verb.motion) Array - make a tour of a certain place; "We toured the Provence this summer"
is one way to journey, travel
Derived forms noun tour₁, noun tourer₁, noun tourist₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

   A tower. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

1.  A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. [1913 Webster]
"The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour." [1913 Webster]

2.  A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]

3.  anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty. [1913 Webster]

   To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]

tour, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a journey from place to place as a holiday. b an excursion, ramble, or walk (made a tour of the garden).
2 a a spell of duty on military or diplomatic service. b the time to be spent at a particular post.
3 a series of performances, matches, etc., at different places on a route through a country etc.
--v.
1 intr. (usu. foll. by through) make a tour (toured through India).
2 tr. make a tour of (a country etc.).

Idiom:
on tour (esp. of a team, theatre company, etc.) touring. touring-car a car with room for passengers and much luggage. tour operator a travel agent specializing in package holidays.

Etymology:
ME f. OF to(u)r f. L tornus f. Gk tornos lathe

N  journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.

duty tour, georges de la tour, grand tour, la tour, on tour, package tour, tour de force, tour de france, tour guide, tour of duty, whistle-stop tour