tourist

plural tourists

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business; a leisure visitor.First known use 1770s

   Tourist shops are full of kitsch.

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   Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   The group operating where we were was called the "Abu Sayyaf" and specialised in K&R (kidnap and ransom), usually of tourists who would finish up beheaded on TV.

   2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 94

2. derogatoryOne who only has a superficial interest in something.

   Marla - the big tourist. The faker.

   1999, David Fincher, director, Fight Club, spoken by The Narrator (Edward Norton)

   Synonyms: dilettante, casual

3. InternetderogatoryslanglifestyleAn unwelcome newcomer, or appropriator, especially one who is inflammatory or uninformed, usually to seek attention, moral approval and superiority over the established hobbyists.
4. informalhobbiesA member of the visiting team in a match.
5. datedcomputingA guest user on a computer system.

   The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.

   2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web

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   This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.

   1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105

present singular third person tourists · participle present touristing · participle past touristed · past touristed

1. intransitiveTo travel as a tourist.

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   “You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of AirDNA […]

   2020 November 4, Sarah Firshein, “Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks”, in The New York Times