tour: [14] Etymologically, a tour is a ‘circular movement’. The word comes via Old French tour from Latin tornus ‘lathe’, which also produced English turn. It was not used for a ‘journey of visits’ – literally a ‘circuitous journey’ – until the 17th century (the term grand tour, denoting a lengthy journey around western Europe formerly undertaken by fashionable young men, ostensibly for educational purposes, is first recorded in the mid-18th century, but the derivative tourist does not crop up until about 1800). Tournament [13] and tourney [13] both go back ultimately to a Vulgar Latin derivative of tornus, the underlying etymological notion being of the combatants ‘turning’ or wheeling round to face each other.
And tourniquet [17] probably comes from the same source. => tournament, tourniquet, turn
tour (n.)
c. 1300, "a turn, a shift on duty," from Old French tor, tourn, tourn "a turn, trick, round, circuit, circumference," from torner, tourner "to turn" (see turn (v.)). Sense of "a continued ramble or excursion" is from 1640s. Tour de France as a bicycle race is recorded in English from 1916 (Tour de France Cycliste), distinguished from a motorcar race of the same name. The Grand Tour, a journey through France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy formerly was the finishing touch in the education of a gentleman.
tour (v.)
1746, "make a tour, travel about," from tour (n.). Related: Toured; touring.
例文
1. Our tour prices bore little resemblance to those in the holiday brochures.
私たちの旅行見積もりは、それらの休暇手帳の価格とはかけ離れています。
2.The tour will include games against the Australian Barbarians.
今回のツアーにはオーストラリア?ワイルド?チームとの試合が含まれる。
3.He found the rigours of the tour too demanding.
彼は今回の旅行が非常に苦しいことに気づいた。
4.The band are currently on a two-month tour of Europe.
バンドは現在、ヨーロッパで2カ月間のツアーを行っている。
5.There were mixed fortunes for French rugby teams on tour .