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sightseeing

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States

The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

noun

  1. 1

    The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

    Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.

Etymology

From sight + seeing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sightseepresent participle and gerund of sightsee

Forms

plural
sightseeings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).