cruise

Definition

  • verb: to travel on a boat or ship to a number of places as a vacation
  • verb: to sail about touching at a series of ports
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: range, navigate, sail

Examples

  • She admits that she's been doing the job so long that she's 'on cruise control'. [=she does not put a lot of effort into the job]

  • On Friday nights, teenagers 'cruise' the main street in town to show off their cars.

  • We went on a weeklong 'cruise' down the Yangtze River.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) before this mission starts to make sense to you? It's not a mission. It's a field test. This is an iNGen situation now. Okay, there are gonna be cruise ships that show up here at first light. Everybody's gonna get off this island. You're gonna watch a news story tomorrow No, no, no, better yet... (..)
    2015 Jurassic World