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touring

verb

Definition of touring

present participle of tour

as in traveling

to take a trip especially of some distance thought it would be lots of fun to tour all over Europe this summer

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Recent Examples of touring But O’Neal, who is also currently touring college campuses to teach personal finance, sees college as more than a path to a diploma. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026 Before long, a promoter recruited her for his stable of touring female wrestlers. — Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026 So, Tomgirls has been kind of like, in the back, while Vandoliers is touring the world multiple times. — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026 After touring the grounds, sample the goods (more than 50 wine varieties) at a tasting in the old farmhouse, with live music Saturdays through September. — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 14 Oct. 2026 With 10+ years under her belt as a stand-up, Shaw began her career in Florida and quickly started touring nationally. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 The Beach Boys’ touring machine has been going nearly nonstop for the last 65 or so years, as Stamos and Christian Love noted in the intro, driven by Mike as one of pop music’s most inveterate and even seemingly compulsive tourers. — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 For the past three years now, stylist duo Storm Pablo and Marvin Douglas Linares have been busy living life on-the-go—mainly while touring with their main client Bad Bunny, who most recently wrapped his DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour in August. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026 In the early 2010s, Tetreault was touring with his band Hundred Waters and feeling some malaise after playing roughly 300 shows behind their eponymous 2012 debut. — Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2026

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The festival also reflected the growing importance of music tourism, with international audiences increasingly traveling for experiences that combine music, culture and destination.

— Peony Hirwani, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026
Maya runs away from her pain by traveling the world, first to Portugal and then to London and Japan, but an unexpected romance forces her to confront her past and realize that there may be more than one love of her life.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of traveling

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Both wear coarse, sheep’s wool djellabas over trekking pants and plaid shirts and have turban-like scarves, known as shesh, piled high on their heads.

— Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026
Still, Trump trekking four time zones west to get to Sullivan’s home turf — an unusually long trip so close to the midterms — is his strongest show of support.

— Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of trekking

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Luna is journeying through your second house of money, possessions and self-worth, gently nudging you toward fair exchanges.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2026
Many of the missing are Hindu pilgrims, who were journeying to Kailash Mansarovar, a high-altitude site in Tibet revered by Hindus and Buddhists.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

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