on tour

1. 1.

   travelling about

   “they took the show on the road”

   “they lost all their games on the road”

   Synonymson the road

   Broadertravel

Questions about on tour

What does on tour mean?

on tour means "travelling about".

What is another word for on tour?

Close synonyms include on the road. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is on tour a common word?

on tour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.