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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tourist \Tour"ist\, noun One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tourist
noun: someone who travels for pleasure [syn: {tourer}, {holidaymaker}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "tourist": adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, slummer, straphanger, tourer, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, traveller, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, visitor, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
tourist n.
1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below {luser}. ITS hackers often used to spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare {twink}, {lurker}, {read-only user}. 2. [IRC] An {IRC} user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything; see {channel hopping}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
tourist A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, {electronic mail}, {games} and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the {ITS} culture's penchant for six-letterisms). Compare {twink}, {read-only user}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10)
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