sightsee

• sight-see

Back-formation from sightseeing.

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

1. (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 […].

• Many speakers prefer forms of "go sightseeing".