sightsee

English

Alternative forms

sight-see

Etymology

Back-formation from sightseeing.

Verb

sightsee (third-person singular simple present sightsees, present participle sightseeing, simple past sightsaw, past participle sightseen)

(intransitive) To go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area.
- 1985, Jilly Cooper, Riders:
  The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered.
- 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley 2014, p. 142:
  It was their first time on the Continent and they sight-saw for a week in Paris […].

Usage notes

Many speakers prefer forms of "go sightseeing".

Translations

go sightseeing

Chinese:
Mandarin: 觀光 (zh), 观光 (zh) (guānguāng), 遊覽 (zh), 游览 (zh) (yóulǎn)
Finnish: katsella nähtävyyksiä
Japanese: 見物する (ja) (けんぶつする, kenbutsu suru)
Korean: 구경하다 (ko) (gugyeonghada)
Malayalam: കാഴ്ച്ചകൾ കാണുക (kāḻccakaḷ kāṇuka)
Polish: zwiedzać (pl)
Russian: осма́тривать достопримеча́тельности impf (osmátrivatʹ dostoprimečátelʹnosti)
Slovene: ogledovati si impf, ogledati si pf
Spanish: visitar los lugares de interés, turismo (es)