# cruise
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: kro͞oz, IPA: /kɹuːz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Homophones: crews, Cruz
* Rhymes: -uːz

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* cruize (obsolete)

#### Noun

cruise (plural cruises)
* A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: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.
** 1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power‎, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229‎:He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.
* (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
* (US, military, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
** 1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin, page 16:I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]
** 2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923:The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.
* A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. See Cruising (driving).
* (bodybuilding, slang) A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).
    Coordinate term: blast

##### Derived terms

* autocruise
* booze cruise
* cruise car
* cruise climb
* cruise-climb
* cruise control
* Cruise Elroy
* cruiseferry
* cruisegoer
* cruiselike
* cruise liner
* cruise missile
* cruiser
* cruise ship
* cruiseway
* cruisewear
* cruisey, cruisy
* kitty cruise
* minicruise
* pleasure cruise
* supercruise
* widow's cruise

##### Translations
#### Verb

cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)
* (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].
* (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, forestry) 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.
* (transitive, colloquial) 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.
** 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 144:We see him [Joseph Huff-Hannon] approach several sets of men to ak if they have "a minute to talk about climate change"; they dismiss him out of hand, clearly more interesting in playing volleyball and cruising—including cruising Huff-Hannon himself—than in listening to bad news.
* (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
* (intransitive, sports) 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).
* (bodybuilding, 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).
    Coordinate term: blast
    blast and cruise

##### Derived terms

* beach cruiser
* cruisable
* cruiser
* cruising for a bruising

##### Descendants

* → Dutch: cruisen, cruise
* → French: cruiser

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

cruise (plural cruises)
* A small cup; cruse.
** King James translators, 1 Kings 17:12
    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.

### Anagrams

* crusie, curies

## Danish
### Noun

cruise c or n (singular definite cruiset or cruisen, plural indefinite cruises)
* cruise (sea voyage)
    Synonyms: krydstogt, sørejse

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “cruise” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kruːs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cruise
* Rhymes: -uːs

### Noun

cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)
* cruise

#### Derived terms

* cruiseboot
* cruisereis
* cruiseschip

## French
### Verb

cruise
* inflection of cruiser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise.

### Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)
* a cruise

#### Derived terms

* cruiseskip

### References

* “cruise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise.

### Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)
* a cruise

#### Derived terms

* cruiseskip

### References

* “cruise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.