Cruise

Definition: Cruise

Cruise

Noun

1. An ocean trip taken for pleasure.

Verb

1. Drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure; "She cruised the neighborhood in her new convertible".

2. Travel at a moderate speed; of vessels or airplanes.

3. Look for a sexual partner in a public place; "The men were cruising the park".

4. Go on a cruise.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cruise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Cruise \Cruise\ (kr[udd]z), intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Cruised(kr[udd]zd); Cruising.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Cruise

Navigation

Voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.

Navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.

Crosswords: Cruise

What?! Probably some local fisherman, out for a pleasure cruise, at night in eel-infested waters (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

The plot of Top Gun is as follows: Tom Cruise flies an airplane around and then tries to have sex with that girl (I Love the '80s; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan)

See she wanna put me on cruise (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Cut my heel had to cruise on back home (Margaritaville; performing artist: JIMMY BUFFET)

Take your drive on cruise control (That's The Way; performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

No pleasure cruise ("We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You"; performing artist: Queen)

And she cruise to the crews like connect da dots (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO)

Death Cruise (1974)

Pleasure Cruise (1972)

Magoo's Cruise (1957)

Cruise Cat (1952)

Canadian Cruise (1949)

Sea Cruise (performing artist: Frankie Ford)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Cruise Ships, Excursion Boats, Ferry Boats, and Similar Passenger Vessels: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Planning and Cruising Guide to The Great Circle Cruise Around the Eastern USA (reference)

• Cruise Control (Svh Senior Year (Sweet Valley High), 44) (reference)

• Eyewitness Travel Guide to Cruise Guide to Europe & The Mediterranean (reference)

• The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin (reference)

• The Essential Little Cruise Book: Secrets from a Cruise Director for a Perfect Cruise Vacation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Cruise & Ferry Info (reference)

• Cruise Business Review (reference)

• Cruise Industry News (reference)

• Cruise Travel (reference)

• Dream World Cruise Destinations (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Speed Collector Pack (Speed Five Star Collection / Speed 2 - Cruise Control) (reference)

• Speed 2 - Cruise Control (reference)

• Adventures of Mary Kate & Ashley: Case of the Logical I Ranch / Mystery Cruise (reference)

• Tom Cruise Action Pack (Top Gun / Days of Thunder / Mission Impossible) (reference)

• Prepared for Your Cruise...The Only Way to Travel (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cruise Control (reference)

• Speed 2: Cruise Control: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Detective Barbie: Mystery Cruise (reference)

• CRUISE CAT INTERNET TOUCHPAD (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Fisher Price Cuddle n' Cruise (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fresh fruit display on cruise ship. Food. Credit: CDC.

Dart balloon used for meteorological studies OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Meteorological kytoon OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A cruise ship tied up on the San Francisco waterfront. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Cruise ship at Juneau in the moonlight. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A cruise ship dwarfed by the magnificence of Glacier Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Boy, does it get foggy around here. I think I saw a cruise ship out there somewhere!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A bluefin tuna attacked by a shark while being brought aboard during pole and line fishing operations. This tuna was attacked during a scientific tagging cruise on a chartered vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Hoisting used nets for maintenance and preparation for another cruise. Credit: Fisheries.

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. An educational cruise on the CAROLINA PRIDE, a vessel operated by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

CDC is responsible for evaluating sanitation on cruise ships docking in US ports. (references)

One outbreak occurred on a South American cruise ship based in the Galapagos Islands. (references)

Business

First time cruise users tend to take a short trip for three to seven nights. (references)

Norway tops the cruise statistics in the four Nordic countries, with over half of the 40,000 cruise passengers. (references)

The participants include airlines, CVB's, car rental companies, tour operator, cruise lines, theme parks, and various destinations. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

The port of Kusadasi is the main port for the cruise lines. (references)

Nicaragua

In 2000, the San Juan del Sur resort town began welcoming cruise ships. (references)

Ukraine

Most Western travelers prefer either individual travel or cruise tours. (references)

Political Economy

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Since then, two main hotels that had closed due to hurricane damage reopened; cruise ship berths in Bassetere have been repaired and tourist arrivals have increased. (references)

Dominica

The Government's efforts to develop the tourist industry had mixed results, with a decline in tourist arrivals but an increase in cruise ship visitors during the year. (references)

Ecuador

Another issue that presents a source of contention is the lax enforcement of Ecuadorian safety standards on their tourist vessels, particularly cruise ships to the Galapagos. (references)

Travel

Nicaragua

Beginning in 2000, the San Juan del Sur resort town began welcoming cruise ships. (references)

Egypt

Most Nile cruise boats do not have a ship's doctor but some employ a medical practitioner of uncertain training. (references)

Egypt

Properly prepared, thoroughly cooked meat in tourist hotels, Nile cruise boats, and tourist restaurants is considered safe. (references)

Worker Rights

Singapore

In February a court jailed for 30 months a man who trafficked 10 women from Thailand, 6 from Vietnam, and 4 from China to be waitresses on a Singapore-based cruise ship. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cruise": autonomous cruise control ♦ autonomous intelligent cruise control ♦ cruise about ♦ cruise climb ♦ cruise control ♦ cruise descent ♦ cruise liner ♦ cruise missile ♦ cruise mode ♦ cruise ship ♦ level cruise ♦ pleasure cruise ♦ shakedown cruise ♦ take a cruise ♦ timber cruise ♦ yachting cruise. Additional references.

Beginning with "cruise": cruise-control, cruise-cure, cruise-level, cruise-missile, cruise-missiles, cruise-ship.

Ending with "cruise": anti-cruise, mini-cruise.

Albanian

lundrim (leeway, navigation, passage, sail, sailing, seafaring, voyage), dalje në det, dal në det (push off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سافر (barefaced, cover, fare, fly, go, hike, journey, leave, pack, ride, set off, tour, travel, voyage), ‏طواف بحري, ‏طاف (afloat, buoyant, circuit, floating, promenade, range, roam, roll, rove, scour, swag, tour, travel), ‏جولة (circuit, patrol, ramble, ride, round, run, swing, tour, trek, turn), ‏جاب (range, roam, rove), ‏أبحر (ferry, navigate, point, push off, ride, sail, set sail), ‏رحلة بحرية (passage, sail, sailing, voyage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кръстосвам (cross, crossbreed, hybridize, intercross, intersect, mix, range, sweep, walk), екскурзия с кораб, пътуване по море, пътувам по море (voyage). (various references)

Chinese 

巡航 . (various references)

Czech

zábavní plavba, plavit se (navigate, sail, voyage), okružní plavba, konat zábavní plavbu, křižovat (crisscross, cross), jet cestovní rychlostí. (various references)

Danish

skovinventering (assessment, enumeration, enumeration survey, inventory, tally, timber cruise, valuation survey), krydsfart. (various references)

Dutch

kruisen (cross, crucify). (various references)

Esperanto

krozi. (various references)

Faeroese

skáksigla. (various references)

Farsi 

گشت زدن (Patrol), سفردریاءی (Sailing). (various references)

Finnish

risteillä. (various references)

French

croiser (crosier, cross), croisière. (various references)

German

kreuzen (cross, hybridize, interbreed, tack, to cross, to cruise, to hybridize, to interbreed, to traverse, traverse), Seereise (sea trip, sea voyage, voyage), kreuzfahrt (crusade, yachting cruise). (various references)

Greek 

κρουαζιέρα. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשיט (row), לשוט (rove, sail, wander). (various references)

Hungarian

tengeri utazás (voyage, voyaging). (various references)

Indonesian

pelayaran (voyage). (various references)

Italian

crociera (adapter, bearing neck, gudgeon pin, mandrel carrier, piston pin, spider, strainer, trunnion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

航行 , 巡航 (cruising), 回航 (navigation), クリプトコッカス症 (chloroform, Chloromycetin, claim, claimant, claimer, clay, clay court, clay pigeon, climograph, clinch, crane, crater, crazy, creatinine clearance, crepe, crepe shirt, crew, crimson, cross sign, crouton, cruiser, cruising, cryptococcosis, customer complaint, Krugerrand, krypton, Kurd, Kurdish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいこう (beginning a series of one's lectures, Buddhist memorial service, chance meeting, crust-like shell, deep, lump ore, mysterious light, navigation, open mouth, open port, opening a port, opening a school, opening of mine, port, seaport, starting a new course), こうこう (baby chicken, brave, filial piety, great feudal lords, harbor entrance, higher technical school, incurable disease, mine, minehead, mouth cavity, pickled vegetables, pit, pithead, princes and marquises, senior high school, sexual union, shaft, surge, thefather of the current emperor, valiant, young and inexperienced person), クルーズ , じゅんこう (cruising, go in order, Imperial tour, obedience, patrol, royal progress). (various references)

Korean 

선박 여행. (various references)

Manx

turrys marrey (sea trip, voyage), shiaulley (a boat trip, boat, boating, clearance, crew, cruising, float off, floating, flow, flow on surface, navigate, navigation, sail, sailing, ship, shipment, voyage, voyaging), marrinys (boat passage, boat passage on ship, sea passage, sea voyage, voyage), jannoo turrys marrey, coorsal (course). (various references)

Pig Latin

uisecray.(various references)

Portuguese

cruzeiro (cruzeiro). (various references)

Romanian

croazierã (sail, sea trip, voyage), face o croazierã (take a cruise). (various references)

Russian 

совершать рейс, рейс (flight, run, voyage), крейсировать, путешествовать круиз, плавание (natation, navigation, swim, swimming). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

krstariti (prowl, sweep), krstarenje. (various references)

Spanish

crucero (battle cruiser, cruiser, junction, ocean cruiser, transept). (various references)

Swedish

kryssning, kryssa (beat, cross, tack), kryss (cross, x). (various references)

Turkish

yol almak (itinerate, travel), turistik gemi yolculuğu, seyir etmek, gemi ile dolaşmak, gemi gezisi, ağır ağır gitmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

круіз, крейсувати, крейсерство, здійснювати рейси, подорожувати (go, journey, tour). (various references)

kruisen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cruise": cruised, cruiser, cruisers, cruiserweight, cruiserweights, cruises. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cruise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Couiza, crasie, Creige, creise, creuice, crise, crize, croesi, cruase, Cruice, Cruiks, cruis, cruisie, cruisoe, cruisy, cruite, crusia, cuise, Cumiskey, Kreisel, Ruisi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: curies.

-1 letter: cires, cries, cruse, cures, curie, curse, ecrus, rices, sieur, sucre, ureic.

-2 letters: cire, cris, crus, cues, cure, curs, ecru, ecus, ices, ires, recs, reis, rice, rise, rues, ruse, sice, sire, suer, sure, uric, user.

-3 letters: cis, cue, cur, ecu, ers, ice, ire, rec, rei, res, rue, sec, sei, ser, sic, sir, sri, sue.

+1 letter: ceriums, cirques, cruised, cruiser, cruises, curites, curries, cursive, cushier, icterus, juicers, murices, saucier, suberic.

+2 letters: acquires, auricles, brucines, caesuric, causerie, cerusite, circuses, citreous, citruses, clumsier, coinsure, couriers, crudites, cruisers, crummies, crustier, cuprites, curacies, curbside, curdiest, curliest, curriers, cursives, curtsied, curtsies, curviest, cutesier, decuries, epicures, eucharis, eucrites, fluerics, incisure, incurves, inducers, insecure, lucifers, numerics, outcries, pictures, piecrust, precious, pumicers, recruits, recusing, reincurs, rescuing, rictuses, scissure, sciurine, scummier, scurfier, scurried, scurries, scurrile, scurvier, scurvies, scuzzier, securing, security, sinecure, sprucier, sufficer, suricate, surplice, unsicker, utricles.