Synonyms:
cruise, sail
Meaning: an ocean trip taken for pleasure
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
cruise
Meaning: drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure; "She cruised the neighborhood in her new convertible"
Synonyms:
cruise
Meaning: travel at a moderate speed; "Please keep your seat belt fastened while the plane is reaching cruising altitude"
Usage examples
Some of them went so far as to send warships to cruise along the Riffian coast.
With Sir Lyster he was always as technical in his language as a midshipman back from his first cruise.
Having in 1585 obtained letters of mark, he made a cruise to the East Indies and returned with considerable booty.
Fourneaux, armed with steel cap and cuirass, held his arquebuse to Laudonniere's throat, and demanded leave to go on a cruise among the Spanish islands.
They refresh themselves at one island or another, but especially at those on the south of Cuba; here they careen their vessels, while some hunt, and others cruise in canoes for prizes.
This floating-anchor I will describe for the benefit of those who may not have seen such a thing, for it is a most useful affair, and no small craft should undertake a long cruise without one.
With this object in view, and not caring to subject their booty to the manifold risks attendant upon a cruise of an entire year, they had sought out a secluded spot, and had there carefully concealed the treasure by burying it in the earth.
It's a bit of a towel hung from a particular window; and when I see it I say to myself, 'Thank God! another voyage safely done and no harm come of it.' It's a sad kind of work for a man to go off for a twenty-four days' cruise leaving a sick wife on shore behind him.
The pirates knowing these seasons (being very diligent in their inquiries) always cruise between the places above-mentioned; but in case they light on no considerable booty, they commonly undertake some more hazardous enterprises: one remarkable instance of which I shall here give you.
Take that other story published in a New York newspaper that on the 10th of last August Thompson Bondifeller's yacht was seen anchored for six hours off Tom Watson's farm, two hundred miles from the sea, and that the Populist candidate, disguised as a bank president, went off with the trust magnate on a cruise from Atlanta, Georgia, to Oklahoma--you don't believe that, do you?"