The Collaborative International Dictionary
go slumming
Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), v. i. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming. [Colloq.]
Usage examples of "go slumming".
He was altogether too freshly back from the slums to want to go slumming.
You go slumming for short-timers, working guys you normally wouldn't look at, that much I can understand.
Fortunately, the haut are such racists, they almost never go slumming outside their genome, so you are not likely to encounter those pitfalls personally.
Some of our people sometimes go slumming in the quaint little bronchioles over that way, but they run the risk of having some unsavory character jump out of a dark alveolus at them.