touring

1. not comparableWorking for a short time in different places.

   a touring company

2. not comparableIntended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.

   If you are not using a touring-specific bike and you have large feet, you could have problems with your heels striking your rear panniers. This is one of the very reasons why a touring bike has long chainstays (435mm minimum).

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of tour

plural tourings

1. countableinformalA touring car.

   Finally, there was the 40-hp machine from the previous year, on the 120-inch wheelbase and listed in four body styles, tourings and roadsters.

   1988, Cars and Parts, volume 31, page 60

2. countableuncountableThe process of taking a tour.

   2013, Stephen Barber, The Walls of Berlin: Architecture And Oblivion Although that map of Berlin […] formed a seminal projection of the city, it comprised only one in an infinite archive of potential maps, to be generated through ocular tourings of Berlin's urban space.