visiting

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/

The act of someone or something that visits.
“Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose[…]”
“I marvel at none of the wild beliefs in the Hartz mountains: fire is the element of the spiritual, and who can tell what strange visitings there may be during the midnight hours that the charcoal-burner sits watching the fitful and subtle mystery of flame?”

present participle and gerund of visit
“On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.”