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cruise^¹

/kɹuːz/ UK
/kɹʉwz/ British, Southern, Standard
/kɹuz/ US
/kɹʉːz/ Australia, New Zealand
/kɾʉz/ Scotland
/kɹʉz/ Northern Ireland
/kɾɪʊ̯z/ Wales

Sounds like crews, Cruz · Rhymes with -uːz

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

noun cruises · cruize

A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure. Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
US, informal A period spent in the Marine Corps. I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]
A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. Near-synonym: car show
Similar: car show
slang A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).

verb cruises · cruising · cruised · cruize

intransitive To sail about, especially for pleasure. the romance of cruising down the Nile
intransitive To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
transitive To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
ambitransitive To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
ambitransitive, colloquial To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
colloquial, transitive To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.
intransitive To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
intransitive To win easily and convincingly. Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
intransitive To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
slang To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast). blast and cruise

cruise^²

/kɹuːz/ UK
/kɹʉwz/ British, Southern, Standard
/kɹuz/ US
/kɹʉːz/ Australia, New Zealand
/kɾʉz/ Scotland
/kɹʉz/ Northern Ireland
/kɾɪʊ̯z/ Wales

Sounds like crews, Cruz · Rhymes with -uːz

noun cruises

A small cup; cruse. And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Cruise^³

/kɹuːz/

Sounds like cruise, crews, Crews, Cruz · Rhymes with -uːz

proper noun Cruce · Cruse

A surname from Anglo-Norman.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sail, cruiser, ship, voyage, boat, shipment, flight, stopover, ride, regulator, switch, pocket, patrol, travel, tour, tourism

Translations

Every language

noun sea voyage

Español	crucero
한국어	순항 sunhang, 크루즈 keurujeu
日本語	巡航 junkō, クルーズ kurūzu
中文	巡航 xúnháng
Português	cruzeiro
Français	croisière
Deutsch	Kreuzfahrt, Seereise
Italiano	crociera
Română	croazieră
Русский	круи́з kruíz, морско́е путеше́ствие morskóje putešéstvije, пла́вание plávanije
العربية	رِحْلَة بَحْرِيَّة riḥla baḥriyya
עברית	שיט shait', הַפְלָגַת נֹפֶשׁ haflagat nofesh, קְרוּז kruz

verb to seek a sexual partner

Português	caçar

verb to sail about

Español	navegar
Italiano	navigare
Русский	пла́вать plávatʹ, плыть plytʹ
עברית	שָׁט shát

verb to move leisurely

עברית	שׁוֹטֵט shotét

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"cruise." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cruise. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

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Chicago

"cruise." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cruise.

BibTeX

@misc{cruise_2026,
  title = {cruise},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cruise},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}