Tour de France

Borrowed from French Tour de France (literally “Tour of France”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtʊə də ˈfɹɑːns/, /ˌtʊə də ˈfɹɒns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtʊɹ də ˈfɹæns/, /ˌtʊɹ də ˈfɹɑns/

Tour de France (plural Tours de France or Tour de Frances)

1. (cycle racing) An annual long-distance cycling race through France and other European countries.

   Synonym: Tour (by ellipsis)

   • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     Sharing my predicament over a breakfast last week, he told me he commutes to his office every day by bike. Yet he was dressed in a smart black suit. His secret, he said, is black denim jeans with a 2 per cent elastane stretch — a great alternative for cyclists who don’t want to go full Tour de France.

• Grand Tour

• unrefactored

Literally, “Tour of France”.

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s/

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le Tour de France m

1. (cycling) Tour de France (annual cycling race through France)

   Synonyms: Grande Boucle (literally “Big Loop”), (by ellipsis) Tour

• maillot jaune
• maillot vert

• Tour d'Espagne
• Tour d'Italie

Borrowed from French Tour de France. The gender follows that of the common noun Tour, which see.

• IPA^(key): /ˌtuːr də ˈfrãs/, [ˌtu(ː)ɐ̯ də ˈfʁãːs], [... ˈfʁɔ̃ːs], [ˈfʁaŋs], [ˈfʁɔŋs]

die Tour de France f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Tour de France, definite plural (chiefly in speech) die Tour de Francen)

1. (cycling) Tour de France

   Synonym: Frankreich-Rundfahrt

• The plural Tour de Francen is unproblematic as a spoken form, but it is orthographically awkward and therefore very rare in edited texts.

Borrowed from French Tour de France (literally “Tour of France”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur de ˈfrans/^[1]

il Tour de France m

1. (cycling) Tour de France (annual cycling race through France)

   Synonyms: Giro di Francia, (by ellipsis) Tour

• maglia gialla
• maglia verde

• Giro di Spagna, Vuelta a España
• Giro d'Italia