Christmas shopping

In preparation for Christmas, Christmas shopping was shopping for Christmas presents. (PROSE: Last Minute Shopping) Before the holiday, Oxford Street in London was full of people battling over who'd get what. (PROSE: Christmas Special) It so busy on Oxford Street a week before Christmas that one could barely move. (PROSE: History 101)

In 1998, the time-active children's toy Parablox was released during the Christmas shopping season. The Great Houses excised it from the timeline shortly after Christmas. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Whilst Christmas shopping in New Zealand, Sarah Jane Smith and many other shoppers were kidnapped, along with a large percentage of turkeys. Abandoning his own shopping to investigate, the Fourth Doctor discovered the Hazoodians were using turkeys to make alcohol, and had kidnapped the humans by accident. The Doctor returned all the kidnapped humans to Earth. (PROSE: Autaia Pipipi Pia)

The Fifth Doctor took Tegan Jovanka and Turlough to Earth on Christmas Eve in the 21st century so they could do some last-minute Christmas shopping. Of the three, the only one who managed to get a Christmas gift, which did then not get lost in the resulting raucous, was Tegan. In the end, the wristwatch Tegan got for Turlough, which she stole, cracked when they returned to the TARDIS, as the Cloister Bells began to ring. (PROSE: Last Minute Shopping)

In 2006, a group of Roboforms attacked Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith while they were Christmas shopping in London. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

The Tenth Doctor once took Martha Jones to London in 3738 to do some Christmas shopping. (COMIC: A Klytode Christmas)