CRUISE


Meaning of CRUISE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kru:z ]

( cruises, cruising, cruised)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.

He and his wife were planning to go on a world cruise...

N-COUNT

2.

If you cruise a sea, river, or canal, you travel around it or along it on a cruise.

She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge...

During their summer holidays they cruised further afield to Normandy and Brittany.

VERB : V n , V prep / adv

3.

If a car, ship, or aircraft cruises somewhere, it moves there at a steady comfortable speed.

A black and white police car cruised past.

VERB : V prep / adv

4.

If a team or sports player cruises to victory, they win easily. ( JOURNALISM )

Graf looked in awesome form as she cruised to an easy victory.

VERB : V to n

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