definition to tour

Pronunciation

• IPA ( key ) : ( without the pour – poor merger ) /tʊə/ , ( pour – poor merger ) /tɔː/
• ( Scotland , Northern Ireland ) IPA ( key ) : /tʉːɹ/
• ( Ireland ) IPA ( key ) : /tuːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) , -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophones : ; tore ( pour – poor merger ) , tor ( pour – poor merger , horse – hoarse merger ) ; taw ( pour – poor merger , horse – hoarse merger , non-rhotic )

Etymology 1

From Old French tour , tourn , from the verb torner , tourner .

tour ( plural tours )

• A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
• A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
• A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts . Metallica's tour of Europe
• ( sports , chiefly cricket and rugby ) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
• ( sports , cycling ) A street and road race , frequently multiday.
• ( sports ) A set of competitions which make up a championship .
• 2022 September 21, Carly Olson, Dan Bilefsky, “Ten prisoners, including Americans, have been released as part of a Russia-Ukraine exchange, Saudi Arabia says.”, in The New York Times ‎ [1] , →ISSN : Among those released were two Americans who had been held captive for more than three months: Alex Drueke, a former U.S. Army staff sergeant who served two tours in Iraq, according to his aunt, Dianna Shaw; [ … ]
• ( graph theory ) A closed trail .
• 1667 , John Milton , “Book X”, in Paradise Lost.   [ … ] , London: [ … ] [ Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker   [ … ] ; [ a ] nd by Robert Boulter   [ … ] ; [ a ] nd Matthias Walker,   [ … ] , →OCLC ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:   [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering   [ … ] , 1873 , →OCLC : The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour ,
• 1712 , Richard Blackmore , Creation : It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
• ( snooker ) A circuit of snooker tournaments
• guided tour
• tour de force
• tour d'horizon
• whirlwind tour

Derived terms

• abortion tour
• Cook's tour
• fifty-cent tour
• knight's tour
• mystery tour
• nickel tour
• package tour
• railtour , rail tour
• starlight tour
• ten-cent tour
• tour operator
• what happens on tour stays on tour
• whistlestop tour

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Translations.

tour ( third-person singular simple present tours , present participle touring , simple past and past participle toured )

• ( intransitive ) To make a journey The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
• ( transitive ) To make a circuit of a place The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.

Etymology 2

Old French tor , French tour ( “ tower ” )

• ( dated ) A tower .

Etymology 3

• ( obsolete ) To toot a horn .
• “ tour ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
• rout , trou
• Hard mutation of dour .

Borrowed from French tour .

tour   m ( plural tours , diminutive tourtje   n )

• IPA ( key ) : /tuʁ/
• Rhymes: -uʁ

Inherited from Old French tor , from Latin turrem , from Ancient Greek τύρρις ( túrrhis ) , τύρσις ( túrsis ) .

tour   f ( plural tours )

• tower La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
• ( chess ) rook
• apartment building
• tour de Babel
• tour de contrôle
• tour de forage
• tour de guet
• tour de siège
• tour d’ivoire
• tour Eiffel

Further reading

• “ tour ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .
• “ tour ” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse .

Middle English

Alternative forms.

• thour , tor , tore , toure , towere , towour , tur

From Old English tūr , tor , torr , from Latin turris .

• IPA ( key ) : /tuːr/

tour ( plural toures )

• English: tower ( see there for further descendants )
• Scots: tour , towr
• Yola: toweare
• “ tǒur, n. (1) ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2007 .
• ( Brazil ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈtuʁ/ [ˈtuh]
• ( São Paulo ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈtuɾ/
• ( Rio de Janeiro ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈtuʁ/ [ˈtuχ]
• ( Southern Brazil ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈtuɻ/
• ( Portugal ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈtuɾ/
• ( Southern Portugal ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈtu.ɾi/
• tour ( guided visit )
• tour ( journey through a given list of places )
• IPA ( key ) : /tur/
• IPA ( key ) : /ˈtuɾ/ [ˈt̪uɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ
• tour , guided visit to a country, museum, etc. Synonyms: viaje , visita , excursión
• ( sports ) tour , a trip to another country to play matches
• ( music ) tour , a trip to other countries undertaken by a singer or musician Synonym: gira
• Tour de Francia
• “ tour ”, in Diccionario de la lengua española , Vigésima tercera edición , Real Academia Española, 2014

tour   c

• ( sports ) a tour (chiefly in individual ball games)
• tour in Svensk ordbok ( SO )
• tour in Svenska Akademiens ordlista ( SAOL )
• tour in Svenska Akademiens ordbok ( SAOB )

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Definition of tour verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• tour something He toured America with his one-man show.
• She toured the country promoting her book.
• (+ adv./prep.) We spent four weeks touring around Europe.
• He's toured across Europe, the UK and North America.
• She is currently touring with her new band.
• He no longer tours.
• The band toured the UK last year.
• The town makes an ideal base for touring the Highlands.
• I was on my own as I toured round.
• We plan to tour all over the country.
• She has toured extensively in the US.
• The Beatles stopped touring years before.
• extensively
• internationally

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What does tour mean?

Definitions for tour tʊər tour, this dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word tour ., princeton's wordnet rate this definition: 3.0 / 2 votes.

tour, circuit noun

a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

"they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island"

go, spell, tour, turn noun

a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

"it's my go"; "a spell of work"

enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour verb

a period of time spent in military service

make a tour of a certain place

"We toured the Provence this summer"

Wiktionary Rate this definition: 3.0 / 1 vote

The Tour de France

Etymology: tor, tour

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes

Etymology: tour, French.

I made the tour of all the king’s palaces. Addison.

Were it permitted, he’d make the tour of the whole system of the sun. Scriblerus Club , Mart. Scrib.

First Ptolemy his scheme cœlestial wrought, And of machines a wild provision brought; Orbs centrick and eccentrick he prepares, Cycles and epicycles, solid spheres In order plac’d, and with bright globes inlaid, To solve the tours by heavenly bodies made. Richard Blackmore.

The bird of Jove stoop’d from his airy tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. John Milton.

ChatGPT Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes

A tour is a journey or trip taken for pleasure, often visiting a number of places and typically as part of a planned itinerary or schedule. This could involve travel for sightseeing, adventure, education, or other recreational purposes. It can also refer to a series of events or performances scheduled in various places, like a concert tour by a musician or band, or a sports team playing in different cities.

Webster Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes

a going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England

a turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies

anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty

to make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary Rate this definition: 4.0 / 1 vote

tōōr, n. a going round: a journey in a circuit: a prolonged journey: a ramble.— n. Tour′ist , one who makes a tour, a traveller for sight-seeing.— adj. Touris′tic . [Fr.,—L. tornus , a turn.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes

That which is done by succession. Tour of duty, turn to go on duty.

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What does TOUR stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TOUR acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tour is ranked #133048 in terms of the most common surnames in America. The Tour surname appeared 127 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tour . 61.4% or 78 total occurrences were White . 15.7% or 20 total occurrences were Black . 11% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin. 7.8% or 10 total occurrences were Asian .

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Rank popularity for the word 'tour' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1776

Written Corpus Frequency

Rank popularity for the word 'tour' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3837

Nouns Frequency

Rank popularity for the word 'tour' in Nouns Frequency: #695

Verbs Frequency

Rank popularity for the word 'tour' in Verbs Frequency: #912

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How to pronounce tour.

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Chaldean Numerology

The numerical value of tour in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

Pythagorean Numerology

The numerical value of tour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of tour in a Sentence

First time in a grand tour in my home country, it will be really special. When you become a competitive cyclist, you dream about riding at the top level but I never imagined I would also be riding here in my home country.

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I think at this stage, if you go over and play on a different tour , then go over and play on a different tour , you're sort of basically leaving all your peers behind to go make more money, which is fine. But just go over there. Don't try and come back and play over here again.

Kevin Streelman :

There will probably be four, five, six of us who will split a plane to get to Colonial, the tour has chartered planes, like big ones, for all the players and caddies in between events, trying to keep our bubble nice and tight.

Karen Axelrod :

I like the Pendleton tour because it emphasizes the company's history and tradition.

Maxim Rigaux :

The tour leaders were as surprised as we were, they had never experienced this before.

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• ^  Princeton's WordNet http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tour
• ^  Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tour
• ^  Samuel Johnson's Dictionary https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=tour
• ^  ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com
• ^  Webster Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tour
• ^  Chambers 20th Century Dictionary https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=tour
• ^  Military Dictionary and Gazetteer https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
• ^  Surnames Frequency by Census Records https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html

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noun as in journey; stint

Strongest matches

Strong matches

• peregrination

Weak matches

• circle tour
• whistle-stop

verb as in visit, journey

• peregrinate
• go on the road
• take a trip

Example Sentences

The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site hosts a walking tour of Douglass’ Anacostia today at noon.

Noah Latham, a private based at Fort Drum, did a tour of Iraq as a drone operator, according to an Army spokesperson.

Hughes was scheduled to join city officials on a tour of the building two weeks later.

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At that time, Matt Rihm and Hans Smith of Armada Skis were driving out for a ski tour in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.

Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

Before I go out on tour, I ask for prayer and to help my family.

They finished out the tour without incident, while newspapers across the country picked up the story.

TLC promptly pulled the plug on the hit series and Shannon embarked on a press tour denying the claims.

I was a part of this tour, debating Meyer in Richmond, Virginia in April.

The magazines sketch us a lively article, the newspapers vignette us, step by step, a royal tour.

But the traveller took a wide tour; and did not bring the letter to its destination until two months after its date.

Your most intimate friend arrived in Paris, and you choose the next day to make a little tour!

I did not anticipate a tour of pleasure through Ireland, but the reality is more painful than I anticipated.

He explained quietly that he did not belong here, but was making a tour of the parishes of Wurttemberg and Baden.

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• hit the trail
• mend fences
• press the flesh
• ring doorbells
• shake hands and kiss babies
• solicit votes

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On this page you'll find 131 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tour, such as: circuit, course, cruise, excursion, expedition, and outing.

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Why You Should Wait To Book Tours Until You Arrive At Your Destination

T aking guided tours of a destination's highlights is often a major reason to visit. Presumably, you've picked the destination due to its unique attractions, culture, history, natural beauty, or a mix of these attributes. When visiting in a limited timeframe, relying on expertise to help you explore makes total sense. Although self-guided tours or exploring on your own may help round out the entire trip, as suffocating itineraries can be tolling, taking a few guided tours can optimize your time.

Speaking of regimented itineraries, you may feel compelled to book your guided tours online before arriving at your destination. In some cases, this approach may be totally warranted. Popular guided tours during peak tourist seasons may sell out, for instance. However, in other cases, we'd suggest fighting your instinct to plan every detail before arriving, including booking tours. By pre-booking tours, you may compromise local expertise and limit your flexibility upon arrival. 

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Local Expertise Versus Larger Tour Agencies

Waiting to book your guided tours after arriving at your destination offers many advantages, but the most obvious benefit relates to localized expertise. Popular sightseeing destinations, such as Rome, Athens, and Luxor, have no shortage of competing tour agencies. You can typically find dozens — if not hundreds — of tour agencies online for these types of destinations. In many cases, large tour agencies actually operate in multiple cities across the world.

While there's nothing exactly wrong with booking a tour with one of these agencies, you should be aware of the type of tour you'll receive. The tour will often involve a lot of people (unless you're spending up for a small group or private tour), extremely regimented, and to be blunt, "touristy." You'll be herded through an itinerary that's very similar to every other well-marketed tour you'd find online.

We're not trying to disparage these types of tours, but if you're looking for a more personal and authentic experience, you'll typically need to wait until you arrive at your destination to book a tour. For one, smaller tour agencies may not have an online presence simply because they don't need to. These agencies typically do great. However, instead of trodding on tourist trails, these smaller agencies are more flexible, nimble, and best of all, talented at avoiding congestion created by larger agencies. Once you land at your destination, simply ask the staff at your accommodations or another local source regarding tour agencies.

Pre-Booking Limits Flexibility

While pre-planning details of a trip may help to optimize your time, stuff happens when you travel. Whether it's the weather, your mood, or other external forces that shift your thinking, pre-booking a guided tour limits your ability to pivot once you arrive. Again, in some instances, you may need to prebook your tour. Guided tours of Manu Picchu, for example, must be booked in advance. Due to issues of over-tourism, other famous sites are also beginning to limit entry, requiring visitors to book tours in advance.

However, this scenario is the exception and not the rule. When you wait until arrival to book a tour, you can often find an agency that better serves your "real-time" schedule and the "on-the-ground" reality of your situation. Is the water cloudy due to rain for your scuba diving excursion? Did you find out Vatican crowds are typically smaller on Tuesdays than Fridays? When you book a tour in advance, you'll be scuba diving in cloudy water and staring at the Sistine Chapel with a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, regardless of new info. 

On the other hand, booking tours upon arrival provides more trip flexibility and allows for "on-the-scene" decision-making. And remember, online tour companies will always market scarcity. But, upon arrival, the corkboards covered in agency brochures, tour agency kiosks on every corner, and the insider info you'll typically receive from friendly locals tend to discount the claim of tour scarcity at popular destinations.

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A July 21 Instagram post ( direct link , archive link ) by Donald Trump Jr. blames Vice President Kamala Harris for the country's immigration problems.

"She was put in charge of the border and we saw the worst invasion of illegals in our history!!!" reads part of the post, which is a screenshot of a post from X, formerly Twitter.

Similar posts on Threads have described Harris as the Biden administration's "border czar."

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The post exaggerates the vice president's role in addressing migration at the southern border. Harris was never put in charge of the border or made "border czar," immigration experts said. President Joe Biden tasked Harris with leading the administration's diplomatic efforts addressing the "root causes" of migration in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Harris led effort addressing 'root causes' of migration in Central America

Early in his presidency, Biden tasked Harris with addressing the “root causes” of migration in Central America. The assignment came out of an executive order Biden issued in February 2021 that sought to reduce migration from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where gang violence, trafficking networks and economic insecurity have caused people to flee.

But the vice president’s role was more limited than being put in charge of the southern border, or being named a so-called “border czar,” immigration experts said.

"VP Harris was never made the border czar or charged with managing the border," Andrew Salee , president of the Migration Policy Institute , said in an email. "That role has always been held by the secretary of Homeland Security . She was asked to be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countries at a time when most of the increase in unauthorized immigration was coming from three countries in Central America and to help lead a private investment strategy in the region."

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas himself noted the different responsibilities between himself and Harris in June 2021 comments at the El Paso, Texas, border.

"The vice president is leading our nation’s efforts to address the root causes – that fundamental question of why people leave their homes," Mayorkas said. "And it is my responsibility as the secretary of Homeland Security to address the security and management of our border."

In March 2021, Biden announced Harris would lead the administration's diplomatic efforts with the Northern Triangle countries to stem migration to the U.S. southern border and work with these nations to enhance migration enforcement at their borders. Harris said at the time that the administration "must address the root causes that – that cause people to make the trek, as the president has described, to come here."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick , policy director at the American Immigration Council , said the "root causes" work Harris took on is distinct from border policy because it focuses on different problems and targets.

"Border policy focuses on individuals who have already made the decision to leave home and have made it to the U.S.-Mexico border and aims to either prevent them or to quickly process them for humanitarian relief or deportation once they cross," Reichlin-Melnick said in an email. "By contrast, 'root causes' policy focuses on individuals who have not left their homes yet, and aims to convince them to stay in their home countries either through economic development – which discourages migration for economic opportunities – or through reduction of violence and persecution that forces people to seek protection elsewhere."

The White House released the administration's " Root Causes Strategy " in July 2021. Its implementation was ongoing as of March when the vice president and the Partnership for Central America , a non-governmental organization, jointly announced $1 billion in new private-sector commitments to address the underlying conditions leading to migration in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The public-private partnership has generated more than $5.2 billion since May 2021 , the White House said.

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Elina Treyger , a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation whose research includes migration and immigration enforcement, also said Harris' diplomatic role with the Central American countries "is in no way a 'border czar'-like position." Treyger said border policy involves many other issues such as enforcement policies, how to process migrants expressing fear of prosecution or torture and how to allocate resources at the border.

U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants at the southern border have soared under the Biden administration . Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high of 2.2 million in 2022, and the number of people taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol has reached the highest levels in the agency's history under Biden, the Washington Post reported .

After a bipartisan border security bill failed to advance in Congress, Biden issued a directive in June to turn away migrants who do not enter the country through legal ports of entry when the number of crossings is high.

Trump, the son of former President Donald Trump, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Our fact-check sources:

• Aaron Reichlin-Melnick , July 22, Email exchange with USA TODAY
• Andrew Salee , July 22, Email exchange with USA TODAY
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What We Know About the Global Microsoft Outage

Airlines to banks to retailers were affected in many countries. Businesses are struggling to recover.

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By Eshe Nelson and Danielle Kaye

Eshe Nelson reported from London and Danielle Kaye from New York.

Across the world, critical businesses and services including airlines, hospitals, train networks and TV stations, were disrupted on Friday by a global tech outage affecting Microsoft users.

In many countries, flights were grounded, workers could not get access to their systems and, in some cases, customers could not make card payments in stores. While some of the problems were resolved within hours, many businesses, websites and airlines continued to struggle to recover.

What happened?

A series of outages rippled across the globe as information displays, login systems and broadcasting networks went dark.

The problem affecting the majority of services was caused by a flawed update by CrowdStrike , an American cybersecurity firm, whose systems are intended to protect users from hackers. Microsoft said on Friday that it was aware of an issue affecting machines running “CrowdStrike Falcon.”

But Microsoft had also said there was an earlier outage affecting U.S. users of Azure, its cloud service system. Some users may have been affected by both. Even as CrowdStrike sent out a fix, some systems were still affected by midday in the United States as businesses needed to make manual updates to their systems to resolve the issue.

George Kurtz, the president and chief executive of CrowdStrike, said on Friday morning that it could take some time for some systems to recover.

How a Software Update Crashed Computers Around the World

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What was affected?

It is more apt to ask what was not affected. Everything from airlines to banks to health care systems in many countries was hit.

In Australia, passengers were stuck in long lines at Sydney airport as information screens went blank, and programming was disrupted at the national broadcaster. Airports in Britain, Germany and Taiwan had long delays at check-ins and flights were delayed or canceled. At an airport in South Korea, handwritten boarding passes were being slowly handed out.

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Flights continued to be disrupted at some U.S. airports into the morning because of the cascading effect of flight delays and cancellations. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that ground stops and delays would be “intermittent” at some airports as airlines grapple with residual technology issues.

The outage affected emergency 911 lines in multiple states, the U.S. Emergency Alert System said on social media — but most if not all of the emergency system problems appeared to be resolving themselves by midmorning.

A few hospitals in Germany said they would cancel elective procedures; and in Britain, some doctors in the National Health Service were unable to gain access to systems. Kaiser Permanente, a medical system that provides care to 12.6 million members in the United States, said all of its hospitals’ systems were affected, and it activated backup systems to keep caring for patients.

At some banks, including JPMorgan Chase, there were delays in processing trades because bankers could not log into their work systems. TD Bank, the 10th largest in the United States, said customers complained that they could not access their online accounts.

But the problems were not uniform. London’s Heathrow Airport said that its flights were still operating. The London Stock Exchange said that it could not publish news updates but the exchange, where trades take place, was working as normal. The auction system at the Norwegian central bank was briefly interrupted, but other major central banks, the European Central Bank and Bank of England, said there was no effect on their systems.

In some cases, issues were resolved relatively quickly. In Ukraine, Sense Bank and the mobile operator Vodafone reported brief problems with their services. At Dubai International Airport, two airlines switched to alternative systems, allowing operations to resume.

Major grocery chains in the United States appeared largely unaffected, with most stores operating as usual. But the world’s biggest logistics companies, including United Parcel Service and FedEx, did report disruptions, causing delivery delays in some regions. A spokesman for UPS said the company’s computer systems in the United States and Europe were affected.

Who’s to blame?

Mr. Kurtz said CrowdStrike took responsibility for the software bug, sent in a system update, that caused the outage. He said in a post on X that Mac and Linux users were not affected.

The incident was not a cyberattack, Mr. Kurtz said, adding that customers remain “fully protected.” But Mr. Kurtz warned on NBC’s “Today” show that the fix could take some time to put in place.

“We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption,” Mr. Kurtz said. Microsoft offered suggestions to users to help resolve the issue, including restoring backup systems.

While CrowdStrike is at fault for the software bug, J.J. Guy, chief executive of cybersecurity company Sevco, said poor resiliency of Microsoft’s operating system is to blame for extent of the damage.

“Bugs happen all the time and are unavoidable, the result of business complexity and technology,” Mr. Guy said. “But this became a catastrophic incident because of the remediation procedures. The resiliency of the operating system was not sufficient to mitigate the risk of that.”

Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment on its operating system. The company’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, said in a post on X that Microsoft is working with CrowdStrike to offer customers technical guidance and bring systems back online.

Eshe Nelson is a reporter based in London, covering economics and business news for The New York Times. More about Eshe Nelson

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What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos

A faulty software update issued by security giant CrowdStrike has resulted in a massive overnight outage that’s affected Windows computers around the world , disrupting businesses, airports, train stations, banks, broadcasters and the healthcare sector.

CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but was the result of a “defect” in a software update for its flagship security product, Falcon Sensor. The defect caused any Windows computers that Falcon is installed on to crash without fully loading.

“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” said CrowdStrike in a statement on Friday . Some businesses and organizations are beginning to recover, but many expect the outages to drag on into the weekend or next week given the complexity of the fix. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told NBC News that it may take “some time for some systems that just automatically won’t recover.” In a later tweet , Kurtz apologized for the disruption.

Here’s everything you need to know about the outages.

What happened?

Late Thursday into Friday, reports began to emerge of IT problems wherein Windows computers were getting stuck with the infamous “blue screen of death” — a bright blue error screen with a message that displays when Windows encounters a critical failure, crashes or cannot load.

The outages were first noticed in Australia early on Friday, and reports quickly came in from the rest of Asia and Europe as the regions began their day, as well as the United States.

Within a short time, CrowdStrike confirmed that a software update for Falcon had malfunctioned and was causing Windows computers that had the software installed to crash. Falcon lets CrowdStrike remotely analyze and check for malicious threats and malware on installed computers.

At around the same time, Microsoft reported a significant outage at one of its most used Azure cloud regions covering much of the central United States. A spokesperson for Microsoft told TechCrunch that its outage was unrelated to CrowdStrike’s incident .

Around Friday noon (Eastern time), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X saying the company is aware of the CrowdStrike botched update and is “working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.”

What is CrowdStrike and what does Falcon Sensor do?

CrowdStrike, founded in 2011, has quickly grown into a cybersecurity giant. Today the company provides software and services to 29,000 corporate customers, including around half of Fortune 500 companies, 43 out of 50 U.S. states and eight out of the top 10 tech firms, according to its website .

The company’s cybersecurity software, Falcon, is used by enterprises to manage security on millions of computers around the world. These businesses include large corporations, hospitals, transportation hubs and government departments. Most consumer devices do not run Falcon and are unaffected by this outage.

One of the company’s biggest recent claims to fame was when it caught a group of Russian government hackers breaking into the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. CrowdStrike is also known for using memorable animal-themed names for the hacking groups it tracks based on their nationality, such as: Fancy Bear , believed to be part of Russia’s General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU; Cozy Bear , believed to be part of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR; Gothic Panda , believed to be a Chinese government group; and Charming Kitten , believed to be an Iranian state-backed group. The company even makes action figures to represent these groups, which it sells as swag .

CrowdStrike is so big it’s one of the sponsors of the Mercedes F1 team , and this year even aired a Super Bowl ad — a first for a cybersecurity company. 

Who are the outages affecting?

Practically anyone who during their everyday life interacts with a computer system running software from CrowdStrike is affected, even if the computer isn’t theirs. 

These devices include the cash registers at grocery stores, departure boards at airports and train stations, school computers, your work-issued laptops and desktops, airport check-in systems, airlines’ own ticketing and scheduling platforms, healthcare networks and many more. Because CrowdStrike’s software is so ubiquitous, the outages are causing chaos around the world in a variety of ways. A single affected Windows computer in a fleet of systems could be enough to disrupt the network. 

TechCrunch reporters around the world are seeing and experiencing outages, including at points of travel, doctors’ offices and online. Early on Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration put in effect a ground stop, effectively grounding flights across the United States, citing the disruption. It looks like so far the national Amtrak rail network is functioning as normal. 

What is the U.S. government doing so far?

Given that the problem stems from a company, there isn’t much that the U.S. federal government can do. According to a pool report, President Biden was briefed on the CrowdStrike outage, and “his team is in touch with CrowdStrike and impacted entities.” That’s in large part because the federal government is a customer of CrowdStrike and also affected.

Several federal agencies are affected by the incident, including the Department of Education , and Social Security Administration, which said Friday that it closed its offices as a result of the outage.

The pool report said Biden’s team is “engaged across the interagency to get sector by sector updates throughout the day and is standing by to provide assistance as needed.” 

In a separate tweet, Homeland Security said it was working with its U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, CrowdStrike and Microsoft — as well as its federal, state, local and critical infrastructure partners — to “fully assess and address system outages.”

There will no doubt be questions for CrowdStrike (and to some extent Microsoft, whose unrelated outage also caused disruption overnight for its customers) from government and congressional investigators. 

For now, the immediate focus will be on the recovery of affected systems.

How do affected customers fix their Windows computers?

The major problem here is that CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor software malfunctioned, causing Windows machines to crash, and there’s no easy way to fix that. 

So far, CrowdStrike has issued a patch, and it has also detailed a workaround that could help affected systems function normally until it has a permanent solution. One option is for users to “reboot the [affected computer] to give it an opportunity to download the reverted channel file,” referring to the fixed file.

In a message to users , CrowdStrike detailed a few steps customers can take, one of which requires physical access to an affected system to remove the defective file. CrowdStrike says users should boot the computer into Safe Mode or Windows Recovery Environment, navigate to the CrowdStrike directory, and delete the faulty file “C-00000291*.sys.”

The wider problem with having to fix the file manually could be a major headache for companies and organizations with large numbers of computers, or Windows-powered servers in datacenters or locations that might be in another region, or an entirely different country.

CISA warns that malicious actors are ‘taking advantage’ of the outage

In a statement on Friday, CISA attributed the outages to the faulty CrowdStrike update and that the issue was not due to a cyberattack. CISA said that it was “working closely with CrowdStrike and federal, state, local, tribal and territorial partners, as well as critical infrastructure and international partners to assess impacts and support remediation efforts.”

CISA did note, however, that it has “observed threat actors taking advantage of this incident for phishing and other malicious activity.” The cybersecurity agency did not provide more specifics, but warned organizations to stay vigilant.

Malicious actors can and will exploit confusion and chaos to carry out cyberattacks on their own. Rachel Tobac, a social engineering expert and founder of cybersecurity firm SocialProof Security, said in a series of posts on X to “verify people are who they say they are before taking sensitive actions.”

“Criminals will attempt to use this IT outage to pretend to be IT to you or you to IT to steal access, passwords, codes, etc.,” Tobac said.

What do we know about misinformation so far?

It’s easy to understand why some might have thought that this outage was a cyberattack. Sudden outages, blue screens at airports, office computers filled with error messages, and chaos and confusion. As you might expect, a fair amount of misinformation is already flying around , even as social media sites incorrectly flag trending topics like “cyberattack.”

Remember to check official sources of news and information, and if something seems too good to be true, it might just well be.

TechCrunch will keep this report updated throughout the day.

TechCrunch’s Ram Iyer contributed reporting.

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